Another commersial program of reasonable cost is
Capella-scan from WHC Musiksoftware, www.whc.de.
I haven't tried it, though.
Apparantly there is some free OCR software available,
who would be willing to start a project for music
recognition?
/Mats
> Greetings!
>
> You might want to take a look at SharpEye, found at
>
> http://www.visiv.co.uk/
>
> This program does Optical Character Recognition on scanned sheet music
> images, and (in my opinion) a decent job making the interpretation to...
> MIDI Format.
>
> The program is provided for a 30 day demo, and otherwise is not too
> expensive. After having tried the demo, all I am waiting for is the
> software to convert MIDI to PMX... (I prefer M-Tx, actually, so words could
> be simply added.) The MIDI to M-Tx should not be that hard (I dream...),
> but then just never have time to start the project :-(...
>
> I know you would enjoy a look at this one, however.
>
> Regards,
> Joel Hunsberger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> HowardGilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >Hello Bernhard,
> >
> >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).
> >
> >Bernhard Lang wrote:
> >>
> >> Does any one of you know a program that can convert scanned music
> >> (whatever graphics format) into some finally to pmx convertible format? I
> >> envisage a project of new editing some music being available only in old,
> >> out-dated editions. But it would be a great simplification if I had not
> to
> >> retype everything.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Best wishes,
> >Howard.
> >(A.H.Gilbert, Thornaby, North Yorkshire)
> >
>
>
