Audiveris is an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

tool for optical music recognition (OMR). It allows a user to import scanned music scores and export them to MusicXML format for use in other applications, e.g.

music notation Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given musical tradition. The proces ...

programs or page turning software for digital sheet music. Thanks to

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it can also recognize text in scores. Audiveris is written in

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

and published as

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. Audiveris V4 was published 26 November 2013 on the basis of Java Web Start under the terms of the

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(GNU GPLv2). The source code of legacy versions as well as current development has moved to

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and is available under the terms of the

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(GNU AGPLv3).

References

External links

* {{Official, https://github.com/Audiveris/audiveris Music OCR software Cross-platform free software Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Free music software