On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 01:29, Graham Percival wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:01:43 -0400 > Daniel Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a way to scan music into lilypond format? > > I very much doubt it. The best way I can think (in the near future) > would be to use a commercial windows program (possibly under Wine) to > scan the music, then export that sheet music to midi, then use midi2ly > to get lilypond notation. SharpEye2 works very well for me, too (if your sheet music is clean and aligned on the scanner grid...) - and it can export to MusicXML, which you can turn into Lilypond with xml2ly, http://www.nongnu.org/xml2ly
> > In the longer term, you could get involved in some of the open-source > OCR projects and start applying them to sheet music. Clara OCR is one > such project (a brief glance at the FAQ shows that they "train" their > program by using feedback from many users; I don't know if other OCR > projects do that too). > http://www.claraocr.org/ (that site also contains links to other > Linux OCR projects) You may want to look at Gamera: I discovered it some time ago, but was never able to have it working because of memory leak while compiling version 1.0. I've just gone ot the website - http://dkc.mse.jhu.edu/gamera/ - and seen version 2.0 has been released. Version 1.0 was GPL, but I cannot find any licensing information for 2.0 Cheers, Guido ps.: I sent this message to Graham only some hours ago by mistake. In the meanwhile I got Gamera 2.0 compiled: I took about 60MB of memory... _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
