An Optical Music Recognition (OMR) application, featuring an OMR engine coupled with a dedicated editor.
It recognizes music from digitized images and converts it into computer-readable symbolic format. This enables further music processing by any external notation editor, most notably: digital playback, transposition and arrangement.
Audiveris provides outputs in two main digital formats: its OMR format and standard MusicXML format. It has a graphical user interface focused on quick verification and manual correction of the OMR outputs. Other music editors, such as MuseScore, Finale, or Lilypond, can be used on Audiveris MusicXML output.
Drums, Fonts and Parts (bis). This release had to be quickly published to fix a bug on small void head templates in 5.3.0 release. Setting the "Small Heads" processing switch led to lots of false positives during HEADS step, due to corrupted templates built for small void heads.