Edit every note in MuseScore 4
Open the file with File, Open. Staves, clefs, key and time signatures and repeats are already in place, so you can fix a note, add dynamics or transpose the piece right away.
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PDF to MusicXML Converter
Upload a PDF of printed sheet music or a photo of the page. Get a MusicXML score you can open, edit and reprint in your notation app.
From a Printed PDF to a Real Score
The first page of Für Elise, read from a printed copy. The score on the right is the MusicXML we wrote, played back in your browser.
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How to Convert PDF to MusicXML
It all happens online in your browser, on Mac, Windows or your phone.
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Upload your PDF
Add one PDF of up to 10 pages, or photograph each page. Multi page scans are joined into one score.
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Check the score
Optical music recognition reads clefs, key and time signatures, notes, rests and bar lines. Open the result from your library and play it to check it.
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Download MusicXML
Pick MusicXML in the download menu and open the file in MuseScore, Dorico, Sibelius or Finale.
Open the MusicXML in Your Notation App
This is the same Für Elise MusicXML from the example above, opened in MuseScore 4.
Reprint a clean copy
Once the score looks right, export a fresh PDF from your notation app. Old photocopies and faded books come back as clear, evenly engraved pages.
PDF to MusicXML for Every Notation App
MusicXML is the shared format for sheet music software, on Mac and Windows alike.
MuseScore
MuseScore opens MusicXML directly. This is the quickest way to import a PDF into MuseScore and edit it as a real score.
Dorico and Sibelius
Use File, Import, MusicXML. Players, staves and bar numbers come across ready for layout work.
Finale
Open the file through the MusicXML import and keep working with your usual templates and fonts.
Who Converts PDF to MusicXML
Anyone who has the music as a PDF and needs it as an editable score.
Music teachers
Turn pages from old method books into editable scores, then adapt and reprint them for each class.
Band and choir directors
Rearrange a printed part for your group, change the key and print new parts for every player.
Music students
Bring set pieces into MuseScore to analyze, annotate and practice writing arrangements.
Church musicians
Transpose hymns and accompaniments to the key your singers need and print a clean copy for the stand.
What Musicians Say
From teachers, students and directors who edit scores every week.
“I had a march only as a scanned PDF. The MusicXML opened in MuseScore with the right key and repeats, and I had new parts printed the same afternoon.”
Daniel O.School band director“For theory class I convert the PDF, open it in MuseScore and mark up the harmony right on the score. It saves me hours of retyping.”
Sofia M.Music student“Our hymn books are decades old. I scan a page, transpose it in Sibelius and print it large enough for everyone to read.”
Kenji T.Church organistFrequently asked questions
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Turn Your PDF into an Editable Score
Upload a page, check it in your browser and open the MusicXML in your notation app.