Let’s walk through the recommended workflow using Soundslice + Guitar Pro 8.
If you have 100 tabs to convert, manually typing them is faster than cleaning up OMR errors. If you have 1 complex classical guitar piece (like a Bach fugue), using a PDF to Guitar Pro converter via MusicXML will save you hours of data entry.
Converting PDF to Guitar Pro is far from trivial. Unlike a text document, musical scores involve complex spatial relationships. A converter must:
: Specialized for scanning sheet music; can export to MusicXML.