Re: OCR to lilypond

[James E. Bailey]

Am 14.04.2008 um 17:50 schrieb Rick Hansen (aka RickH):

> I've used just about every notaion program that exists, but I still  
> like to
> just write out my sheets on staff paper with a pencil prior to  
> entering the
> data into a formal notaion software like lilypond or whatever.
>
> It would be wonderful if I could generate lilypond source code from a
> hand-written staff initially, then go back and tweak it in code.   
> After all,
> all the information is there on the page, it just needs to be  
> interpreted.
>
> Is anyone aware of any commercial program, dll, or open source  
> projects that
> are working on music OCR that would have the potential to (one day)  
> be used
> to generate lilypond source code?  Preferably open source.
>
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Funny you should think of it that way, the last two scores I've done,  
I've actually written not on normal staff paper, but on notebook paper  
in lilypond code, a kind of hybrid between seeing several staves and  
having the lilypond code. It makes translating to lilypond code a bit  
easier, because, at least for the input things, I'm thinking about how  
it's going to be in lilypond. While I'm sure this could be very easily  
read and translated by OCR software and used by lilypond's parallel  
music option, if a change needed to be made to just one staff, or if  
you wanted to extract music for parts, it would be pretty involved.