In 2011 a review in PC World said the results with clearly printed sheet music were accurate, but that the interface had too many floating and docked toolbars.
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The reviewer stated that the user interface was confusing even for advanced users, and that the manual offered "little or no help, especially for the novice". In 2009, a review of SmartScore X in Music Educators Journal found the scanning performance to be "extremely accurate" with professionally engraved music, but said the program was only able to "minimally interpret" handwritten scores.
Researchers at the University of Florence conducted a performance assessment of optical music recognition software in 2007, and found that software developed at the University, Object Oriented Optical Music Recognition System, as well as SharpEye 2 outperformed it. Also, some scores scanned by Maximum PC weren't recognized by the software. Maximum PC reviewed SmartScore in 2000 and said that it "gets the job done easily," but was difficult to navigate and had a crowded layout. SmartScore is a software product which performs optical character recognition on scanned music and converts it into a digital musical score that can be played back as a MIDI file, or exported as MusicXML to music engraving programs such as Sibelius and Finale. The current version, SmartScore X2, was released by maker Musitek in 2013. The product line was later changed to "SmartScore" and re-released for Windows 98 in 1998, and for the Macintosh Power PC in 1999 as a scanning/scoring hybrid product. The following table contains measure-by-measure input and output for SmartScore X2 Pro and SharpEye 2.68 using Beethovens first piano sonata as test. SmartScore was originally released in 1991 as MIDISCAN for Windows.