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Conversion of pdf file format to musicxml file format ^beta

Search for pdf to musicxml converter or software able to handle these file types.

Convert Adobe Portable document format to MusicXML music notation XML file.

We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .pdf to .musicxml file format conversion.

You can certainly find tools that can read and process music notations from PDF files that were exported from one of the many music notation software. Once this is done, the next step would be to export the recovered notation to MusicXml format. Unfortunately, we do not know about any software that can do this directly, so you will have to use tools like ScanScore first, before you can export it as Musicxml (.mxl) file. Will require manual editing though as recovery from PDF is usually not without errors.

Updated: June 29, 2023

Microsoft Windows software - convert pdf to musicxml on Windows

PDFtoMusic

A PDF sheet to music converter

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from pdf file	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
to musicxml file	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned pdf to musicxml. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

Multiplatform software - convert pdf to musicxml on any platform

Musitek SmartScore

A music scanning and notation software

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
pdf	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
musicxml	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

Additional links: Open pdf file, Open musicxml file

PDF

A pdf file extension is mainly used for Adobe Portable document format, commonly referred to as PDF. All programs that create some sort of documents or projects offer the possibility to export their format to PDF format. A free PDF viewer (Adobe Reader) is available for download from Adobe website.

MUSICXML

An MusicXML file extension is related to the MusicXML notation format used to store music notation. An musicxml format is used by ENCORE!, Capella, MuseScore and others.

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