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Cheap software for scanning a PDF with sheet music in such a way that I could modify it AND play it?

I need a program that will read a PDF file with sheet music in such a way that I will be able to remove and add notes, transpose and play the whole partition (or its bits) in MIDI. The programs I could find using the search engine are all very expensive (and have many functions I do not need); just wondering which one is cheapest on the market and still performing all the functions I need?

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1. None of the cheap softwares do this. I have seen cheap ones advertised - I do not trust that they are significantly better than what i now have. Even the expensive ones need tweaking - there is never a [perfect scan and OCR capture. You might find a low=-end version or cheap knock-ff of something like Neuratron, but be prepared to tear you hair out in frustration. Since they all need tweaking anyway, even though I own high-end scanning software for the professional editing I do, I usually enter is all by hand anyway - I am in control. For that, you can find free things (NoteFLight) of cheap things ( Finale Notepad - ten bucks.) I would assume that you have done the usual searches, and are not satisfied with what you found, and that is why you asked us here.
2. Even the expensive ones like photoscore aren't 100% reliable. That just gets you the scanning and pdf creation. Then you still need to edit the pdf file. What you need is to import the sheet music into a score writing program. Add a few hundred more to the price tag. ... your best bet for "on the cheap" is Noteflight and entering by hand. http://www.noteflight.com/