PDF Sheet Music Scan, Transpose Software / App

hayesdt · 04-17-2012, 09:40 AM

My wife and I play lots of Old Time Music, she hammered dulcimer, me clawhammer banjo and fiddle. She has more difficulty playing by ear, so I have stored about 400 tunes in pdf form on her iPad (basically just the melodies). Occasionally, however, we'd like to play some of these tunes in other keys, e.g., A rather than G, and I'd like to spare myself the chore of transposing tunes by hand and literally writing them out.

Is there a good, reliable software program or app that can "scan" a sheet music pdf file and then transpose the sheet music (actually just melody) to another key? Thanks for any ideas.

david miller · 03-06-2014, 10:03 PM

I think you may need to use Twain Scanner which can scan pdf and transform scanned pdf to other digital applications.

04-17-2012, 09:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
hayesdt Groupie Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 1	PDF Sheet Music Scan, Transpose Software / App My wife and I play lots of Old Time Music, she hammered dulcimer, me clawhammer banjo and fiddle. She has more difficulty playing by ear, so I have stored about 400 tunes in pdf form on her iPad (basically just the melodies). Occasionally, however, we'd like to play some of these tunes in other keys, e.g., A rather than G, and I'd like to spare myself the chore of transposing tunes by hand and literally writing them out. Is there a good, reliable software program or app that can "scan" a sheet music pdf file and then transpose the sheet music (actually just melody) to another key? Thanks for any ideas.

03-06-2014, 10:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
david miller Groupie Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 2	I think you may need to use Twain Scanner which can scan pdf and transform scanned pdf to other digital applications. __________________ Scan PDF, again?