Re: OCR to lilypond

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Montag, 14. April 2008 schrieb Rick Hansen (aka RickH):
> I've used just about every notaion program that exists, but I still like to
> just write out my sheets on staff paper with a pencil prior to entering the
> data into a formal notaion software like lilypond or whatever.
>
> It would be wonderful if I could generate lilypond source code from a
> hand-written staff initially, then go back and tweak it in code.  After
> all, all the information is there on the page, it just needs to be
> interpreted.
>
> Is anyone aware of any commercial program, dll, or open source projects
> that are working on music OCR that would have the potential to (one day) be
> used to generate lilypond source code?  Preferably open source.

Well, hand-written scores are not (well or at all) supported by any OMR 
application that I'm aware of. With printed scored, I have had the best 
results with SmartScore, but I have no idea how well or if at all it 
understands hand-written scores.

If you find any OMR application, that exports to MusicXML (SmartScore or 
Audiveris do), you can then use musicxml2ly to convert the MusicXML file to 
lilypond...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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