Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>
To: "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden>

> > C) Development of score_ocr2ly, which would take a score pdf and turn it
> > into .ly files matching the lilypond scoring standard
>
> Heh.  This is a known problem, and the OCR part is very, very
> difficult. It also has nothing to do with lilypond.


There are a number of commercial products that, given a perfect 
representation of a score, convert it to perfect musicXML - so it can't be 
that hard.  It may simply be that the OS community do not generally have 
these skills.

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Phil Holmes