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Audiveris

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) Application.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Open an “a propos” dialog with information about Audiveris program and the main external components it depends upon (Tesseract OCR, Java, OS, machine architecture).” — official page, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Audiveris is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

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.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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