capella-scan Version History

Changes to capella-scan: most recent first

Changes 6.1 to 7.0 (April 2009)

Guitar tabs for string instruments recognized.
Gothic print recognized.
Percussion key signatures recognized.
X note heads recognized.
Rehearsal numbers recognized.
Double sharp accidentals recognized.
Courtesy accidentals recognized.
Fingerings recognized.
Grace notes recognized.
Arpeggio signs recognized.
Pedal-up and pedal-down recognized (if pedal-up occurs in the same staff).
Abbreviations recognized.
Improved text recognition with FineReader version 8.0.
Manual insertion of one-line staff, different trills, articulations, head types, quarter tone accidentals, dotted bar lines, and slurs.
Edit your score manually with scissors and eraser before recognition.
Style sheets: Controls uniform display of automatically recognized text types such as lyrics, fingering, passage titles, voice names, chord symbols and tempo direction.
System template: Control and edit the system template via the system template editor. Automatic creation as well as manual correction are supported by an instrument database.
Playback: Choose a separate instrument for each voice. capella-tune technology with VST interface and connection to capella Vienna orchestra.
Search function: Search lists can be freely configured, objects will be marked or highlighted.
Anchor chains: See immediately which texts and other objects belong to which note.
Improved automatic positioning of texts and other objects.
Keys: Accidentals can be pasted or edited as a group.
Stems are automatically extended when a note head is vertically moved.
Repeated entry: The last three objects can be entered with right mouse click or by pressing "space" (Until now: only the last object). The last three notes, rests, note heads and stems can be entered via the shortcut keys (p, n, k, h).
With Alt+mouse click you can mark objects belonging together: Beam groups, guitar tablature, all accidentals of a key, lyrics text line, texts of a text block.
Improved mouse wheel support: You can change the zoom factor via Ctrl+mouse wheel. When pressing the mouse wheel or the middle mouse button the page is scrolled.
Shortcut keys are now shown directly in the tool tip.
Tool bars: Better optics, easy configuration.
PDF import directly accesses embedded image information. This results in better display and recognition of PDF files (For PDF import you still need Ghostscript).
Images can be exported as (multiple page) PDF files.
Scanner interface: Supports TWAIN 2.0 as an addition to TWAIN 1.x.
Transposable chord descriptions are now saved as formatted text (this saves space).
Save state of recognition: With Windows Vista it became more and more difficult to find capella-scan's local data directory. You can now set up this directory via "Options" and open it in an Explorer window with one mouse click.

First Recordare release 6.1 (January 2007)

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Last updated April 2, 2010.