Convert PDF sheet music to MusicXML
Drop in a PDF exported from MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale, Dorico or LilyPond. Get a MusicXML file you can open and keep editing in any notation program.
Drop your PDF here
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PDFs exported from MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale, Dorico or LilyPond, up to 100 MB. Scans and photos can't be converted yet.
How it works
Step 1
Drop in a PDF
One exported from your notation program, up to 100 MB.
Step 2
We read the notation
Notes, rhythms, lyrics, repeats and tempo, page by page. You can watch it go.
Step 3
Download MusicXML
Open it in MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale or Dorico and pick up where the PDF left off.
Questions
- Which PDFs can be converted?
- PDFs exported from notation software such as MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale, Dorico or LilyPond. These carry the music as notation, which is what we read. Scanned pages and photos are pictures of music, and can’t be converted yet.
- What comes across?
- Notes and rests, rhythms, ties, chords and voices, lyrics, clefs, key and time signatures, repeats with 1st and 2nd endings, and tempo marks. Slurs and dynamics aren’t converted yet.
- Will it open in Sibelius or Finale?
- Yes. Sibelius, Finale, Dorico and MuseScore all open MusicXML, the standard format for moving scores between programs. After a conversion you’ll see how to open the file in each one.
- Do you keep my files?
- No. Your PDF is read on our server and then thrown away, and the MusicXML comes straight back to you. Neither is stored. Large files pass through private storage while they upload and are deleted as soon as they’re read.
- Is it free?
- Yes, converting is free to use right now.