Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-08 Thread Gerard McConnell
This one has been around for a few years and the demo looks good - http://www.braeburn.co.uk/demos/scanning.html gerard This is an active area of research; look for music OCR or score OCR on google scholar. Most papers that I've seen export data in musicxml format, but if you

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Percival
On 2/7/11, rathcof...@comcast.net rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: LilyPond processes text statements produces the music notation in a PDF file. Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to text? This is an active area of research; look for music OCR or score OCR on

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/2/7 Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca: On 2/7/11, rathcof...@comcast.net rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: LilyPond processes text statements produces the music notation in a PDF file. Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to text? This is an active

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Phil Holmes
to other formats, like MusicXML. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: rathcof...@comcast.net To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 3:13 PM Subject: converting from PDF I've been thinking about this for some time. Finally it dawned on me. LilyPond

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Shane Brandes
There is a program called Audiverts. I have not tried it, but it looks to be a start of what you are after. Regards, Shane On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM, rathcof...@comcast.net wrote: I've been thinking about this for some time.  Finally it dawned on me. LilyPond processes text

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Jan Warchoł
2011/2/7 rathcof...@comcast.net I've been thinking about this for some time.  Finally it dawned on me. LilyPond processes text statements produces the music notation in a PDF file. Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to text? While I'd love to see LilyPond

Re: converting from PDF

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
What about this one, I think it's quite good: http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusicpro.htm On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Shane Brandes wrote: There is a program called Audiverts. I have not tried it, but it looks to be a start of what you are after. Regards, Shane On Mon, Feb 7, 2011