howard gilbert writes:
> I think this would not be easy to do. Because of variations in
> scores it could become nearly as complex as handwriting
> recognition. I think you'd have to do it in some Artificial
> Intelligence based way. Even to get a scanned piece of text from the
> scanned image format to an ascii text file, software tends to make
> mistakes (eg if there happens to be some italic text).
it may not be easy, but it can be done, in relatively cheap software.
my partner composes using sibelius for windoze (really good software,
despite the platform it runs on), and that comes with a score-reading
package which she says is pretty acceptable.
i believe it _is_ possible to convert sibelius into other formats, but
i've never seen it actually done.
robin
