hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (02/19/90)
Hey - does anyone know of any optical scanner package that includes *music* recognition software? It seems like this would be a lot easier to implement than a general purpose text recognizer, and there are zillions of those out (for the Mac at least). I'd really like a quick way to get printed music into electronic form. Any ideas? -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) (02/20/90)
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
Hey - does anyone know of any optical scanner package that includes
*music* recognition software? It seems like this would be a lot
easier to implement than a general purpose text recognizer, and there
are zillions of those out (for the Mac at least). I'd really like
a quick way to get printed music into electronic form. Any ideas?
--
-- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
I was at an Amiga conference last year, and remember talking to a
scanner company about exactly that. They asked me if I thought it
was a good idea, because one of their developers had thought of it. I
thought, gee, that would be nifty. Then, I thought...
Well, this would really come in handy for loading preprinted scores
into MIDI files for editing. However -- how many of those do I have?
Answer: not many. I've got lots of fake-book type lead sheets, and
lots of hand-written music, but not too much preprinted stuff. I
think that the software would *not* be able to do handwritten stuff,
because of the obvious problems. ( OCR software can't handle
handwriting very well either. ) Without that ability, it would be
nearly useless for me, and I thought for lots of others.
In short: I think that there is not such a package availble.
Sorry if I caused the early death of such a project ;-)
~~~Steve
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*eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (02/20/90)
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
;Hey - does anyone know of any optical scanner package that includes
;*music* recognition software? It seems like this would be a lot
;easier to implement than a general purpose text recognizer, and there
;are zillions of those out (for the Mac at least). I'd really like
;a quick way to get printed music into electronic form. Any ideas?
How are you going to transcribe the rhythm? Looks like a massive problem to
me.