Re: [Denemo-devel] SharpEye, PhotoScore, and Denemo

[lewis . r0516]

Hello Johan --

On December 15, 2016 08:25:48 PM Johan Vromans wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:04:33 +0000, Richard Shann 
<address@hidden>
> 
> wrote:
> > This confirms what people have said elsewhere - that Audiveris lags
> > behind SharpEye/PhotoScore (these two are the same OCR with different
> > front ends/marketing as I understand it). Perhaps the long-awaited
> > re-write of Audiveris may change that?
> 
> I doubt it... As far as I understand Audiveris, it relies on the user to
> make the corrections, exactly what we try to avoid.
> 
> Linux users may be interested in my workflow for SharpEye.
> 
> Since I use SharpEye at most 2 or 3 times per year, I cannot bother with
> buying it. Besides I do not have a Windows system. And SharpEye
> looks dead anyway.
> 
> Fortunately, SharpEye runs fine under Wine. And you can download a 30-day
> free trial of SharpEye from the web site http://www.visiv.co.uk/ .
> 
> First I backup my Wine data (important!) and then I install the trial:
> 
>   $ wine installsharpeye2.exe
> 
> SharpEye only understands TIFF and a special form of BMP. Anything else
> must be converted:
> 
>   $ convert -density 300 -monochrome -type bilevel -depth 1 score.pdf
> 'page%d.tiff'
> 
> This will produce a number of .tiff files, one for each page.
> 
> Time to run SharpEye. Choose Read > Batch process...
> 
> Load all the pages at one. The default output is a file AllPages.mro .
> 
> Then press Process and SharpEye will scan the pages and write AllPages.mro .
> 
> Choose File > Open Music and select AllPages.mro .
> 
> Choose File > MusicXML > Save As... to produce the desired xml.
> 
> That's it.
> 
> I then restore my Wine data from the backup, removing the SharpEye install.
> 
> As said, I do not use this often, but it works nice for many scores.
> 
> -- Johan
> 

I do use linux, so thanks for your "How To".

Regards,
Robert