You might start with one of the OMR (Optical Music Recognition) programs. I've never used this process, but a publisher did reformat a page that I submitted in *.pdf format. He downloaded the resulting file into a music notation program and re-edited it. See [1]http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/omr.html Do let us know how you solved the problem you presented us. It might be useful for others.
On 10/05/16, MJ Hodgson<[2][email protected]> wrote: Thanks Bruno - sounds like a good idea. I don't have Finale on my PC but will search for a, hopefully, free version. Martyn __________________________________________________________________ From: Bruno Figueiredo <[3][email protected]> Sent: 04 October 2016 16:13 To: Martyn Hodgson Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score Dear Martyn, Another solution would be to import a pdf using the Finale program. The file will be converted to Finale and you will be able to do anything with it. Regards. 2016-10-04 4:57 GMT-03:00 Martyn Hodgson <[1][4][email protected]>: Dear David and Bruno, Many thanks for this. I've looked at Partifi now: it seems mostly to have been designed to produce individual parts from a full score although there does seem to be the facility to combine some. But the need to have to label every line and specify a part on every single page might make the whole thing a bit labourious for what I wish to do. eg a 165 page full score with up to 30 independent parts/lines to cut and paste into a short score of just four principal lines would seem to take a long time to achieve - unless I've missed some easier facility within Partifi. But many thanks Martyn __________________________________________________________________ From: David van Ooijen <[2][5][email protected]> To: MJ Hodgson <[3][6][email protected]> Cc: Lute NET <[4][7][email protected]> Sent: Monday, 3 October 2016, 15:18 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Creating a short score from pdf full score My mistake. Here's the correct link [1][5][8]http://partifi.org/ David On Monday, 3 October 2016, David van Ooijen <[2][6][9][email protected]> wrote: Partify com or org, don't know). On Monday, 3 October 2016, MJ Hodgson <[1][3][7][10][email protected]> wrote: I'd be grateful for advice on the best (free) software for creating a new short score from an existing pdf full score. What I mean is being able to copy two or three principal lines and the bass onto a new pdf page of, say, a 30 part mass which already exists as a pdf . I presume there's some where one can scroll over a line, copy it and paste onto a new pdf and so, by digitally cutting and pasting, create a new short score more useful to a theorbo player who finds dealing with page turns every few bars not really practicable (unlike keyboard where the right hand can turn). MH -- To get on or off this list see list information at [2][4][8][11]http://www.cs.dartmouth. edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [3][5][9][12][email protected] [4][6][10][13]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* -- References 1. mailto:[7][11][14][email protected] 2. 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