The Best Apps for Digitizing Sheet Music

Hello! 👋 This article dates back to 2018... Since then, Newzik has its own built-in scanner. It's designed to work perfectly with your favorite sheet music app, and very simple to use. That's surely why it's quickly become the most popular way to import content into the app! To find out more, read this dedicated article.

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Whether you're a musician, composer, librarian or music teacher, the need to digitize scores is becoming indispensable. Today, the smartphone has become an incredible digitizing tool, thanks to its built-in high-quality cameras and the many apps available. But what are the best scanning apps when it comes to scanning sheet music? Here's our selection.

1. Scanner Pro

Scanner Pro is our favorite application. Although it's not free, the features are well worth it. This application offers superior scan quality, extremely precise automatic cropping, and allows pages to be reorganized quickly and intuitively. Users can choose from four different colors - "grayscale" generally giving very good results for sheet music. What's more, the application features professional tools such as distortion correction and brightness and contrast adjustment.

Download Scanner Pro App 4.49 €

2. Scanbot

Our second choice is the Scanbot application. This basic application is free and easy to use. It offers numerous scanning options, high scan quality and four different colors (including grayscale). The only drawback is that you sometimes need to be patient, as processing can be a little slow. The paid version, Scanbot Pro, lets you reorganize pages (move, rotate, add, delete), and offers search functions and intelligent file naming.

Downloads:

• Scanbot Scanner App Free

• Scanbot Pro App 7.99 €

3. Genius Scan

Finally, Genius Scan is a free application that offers high scan quality (although it doesn't support "grayscale" scanning), with fast processing and editing features. Genius Scan +, the paid version of the application, allows users to print and export the scanned document to Cloud services.

Downloads :

• Genious Scan App Free

• Genious Scan+ 8.99 €

Comparative table of these apps

Final tips

Here are four final tips to help you get the best results when digitizing sheet music from your smartphone:

• Be sure to hold your smartphone upright and as close as possible to the score.

• Don't forget to activate the flash if the ambient light is too weak.

• Place the score on a flat, dark surface.

• Compare portrait and landscape orientations and choose the one that gives the best rendering.