No, just as with OCR for text, you should never simply convert and not proof the conversion.
But I have found that for neatly printed originals there is very little clean-up necessary. So with neatly printed but out-of-copyright hymns you should have very little problem. David H. Bailey On 8/19/2011 8:31 AM, Steve Parker wrote: > Hi David, > > Is it now possible to do music OCR without proofing? > It's been a long time since I tried anything like that. > > Steve P. > > On 19 Aug 2011, at 12:39, David H. Bailey wrote: > >> On 8/18/2011 1:30 PM, Greg Scheer wrote: >>> One of my jobs is with Hymnary.org, which is an online database of hymns >>> and hymnals. This year we received an NEH grant to make available public >>> domain hymnals from various library collections. We have thousands of >>> scanned pages like this: http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/OGCS1902/page/83. Now >>> we would like to automate a process that would let us digitize the >>> information on these pages, essentially turning the page into a MusicXML >>> and MIDI file. This will also allow us to create a searchable database of >>> incipits, etc. We have the programmers to create the automation, now we >>> need top notch music OCR. >>> >>> So my question to you is this: can you recommend a great Music OCR program? >>> >> >> >> I really like the results with Photoscore Ultimate from Neuratron. A >> "light" version comes with Sibelius but I bought the full version >> (version 6) about a year ago and get great results from it. >> >> -- >> David H. Bailey >> dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
