Re: optical recognition for input

[Valentin Petzel]

Out of interest I tried Audiveris on a rather simple Lilypond score. The 
results are somewhat okay, but not stellar (see for yourself). I think with 
more complex scores this will quickly get messy. So I guess this could save 
some time in very specific situations.

But the question is: Would you want that? In situations where this works you 
probably have a high quality scan of a quality score, so the only reason why 
you’d want to engrave it is to change things. But going the Scan→MusicXML→Ly 
will not give you the clean structure you’d get from typing it yourself, so 
working with these files is harder.

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Dienstag, 18. Jänner 2022, 10:36:36 CET schrieb Paul Hodges:
> From:   Vincent Gay <vgay@vintherine.org>
> 
> By curiosity I tried it with a score produced by Lilypond, the result is
> not very satisfactory. As it is, it seems to me that it is quicker to
> enter everything on the keyboard than to correct what the software has
> recognized.
> 
> I've not tried Audiveris; but this is my impression from the Music OCR
> programs I've tried.  I found PhotoScore (which came with Sibelius)
> essentially useless.
> 
> 
> I do use SharpEye (http://www.visiv.co.uk/) sometimes, on a clean score, but
> only some very specific styles of music make it worth it.  The ability to
> edit on the spot, with the original in view is handy - except that the
> editor is extremely strange and hard to use.  The current version is
> fifteen years old...
> 
> 
> Paul

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