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 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. SmartScore was originally released in 1991 as MIDISCAN for Windows. SmartScore 64 is a music OCR and scorewriter program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California.

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