Finale and Sibelius have OCR plugins
or addons, and I've used one of them as a demo (I'm 99.9% sure it was Sibelius)
and it was atrocious. It would take longer to fix all its mistakes than
it would to just enter your music from scratch, I think. Maybe the version
you buy is better than the demo but I doubt it. I can't imagine anyone
buying it after using the demo!
Myriad (the makers of Harmony Assistant)
have a program called PDF-to-Music that does pretty well, but then you're
stuck with the file in their closed-source format.
I'd be interested to know of a non-proprietary
music OCR program as well. Good luck.
Tim Reeves
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> 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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