Converting PDFs to MUS files

[Mark]

I don't think this will work well; but you could use Acrobat to save the PDF files as TIFF files and then read them into Finale.

[lgb&dtuba]

It amazes me sometimes, with all the things technology can do, how many things you still CAN'T do. You'd think the ability to scan sheet music into an intelligent, editable document would be widespread, but it isn't - not even close.

I'd like to be able to do that myself.

BUT - it's a copyright issue.

Sheet music is quite often even printed on paper too large to work well in a copier. Same reason.

[Chuck(G)]

I use Ghostscript to convert to TIFF (it's free) and then run that into SharpEye and produce MusicXML for importing into Finale or Sibelius. It works better than I expected.

[tbn.al]

Photoscore imports(reads) them directly into Sibelius. Don't know about Finale.