Thanks John, I'll pass that on to her. Gonz
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:05 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/26/2017 10:24 AM, Gonz wrote: >> >> A friend asked me this and I didn't have an answer, perhaps someone on >> the list has heard of this before? >> >> "I was wondering if you know anything about document cameras (i.e. >> rigs to photograph a large number of pages as an alternative to >> scanning). The idea is to use such a thing to convert many pages of >> music charts into electronic form. Any suggestions? Thanks." >> > > Sounds like what your friend is looking for is a copy stand set up to > photograph loose sheets. This might do. > > http://www.instructables.com/id/Copy-Stand-Cheap-and-easy-to-build/ > > If necessary to photograph larger manuscripts, the design could be > easily made larger. > > What happens next depends on whether your friend just needs images of > the pages or needs to extract the musical notation from the images. > > Converting words or musical notation in the images is going to require > some kind of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Most flatbed > scanners I know of come with an OCR application. I don't know if any of > them can interpret music notation. > > BUT (and by now you should know there's always going to be a "but") ... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_OCR > > AND > > https://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/digitising-your-collection-part-4-scanning-and-handling-tips/ > > https://mpetroff.net/2013/09/scanner-modifications-to-scan-large-documents/ > > https://www.digitalnc.org/about/what-we-use-to-digitize-materials/ > > You might also do a Google search for "rare document digitization > equipment". > > Now you know as much about it as I do. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
