Re: converting from PDF

[Jan Warchoł]

2011/2/7 <address@hidden>
>
> I've been thinking about this for some time.  Finally it dawned on me.
> LilyPond processes text statements & produces the music notation in a PDF 
> file.
> Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to text?

While I'd love to see LilyPond being able to do that, i don't think we
are ready to start such a project as a part of LilyPond. Importing
music from pdf is a compplicated process and i suppose it would take
much effort to create a working solution, effort that i'd prefer being
spent on LilyPond itself.
However, there are some programs that can do this and can save files
to musicxml, which can be imported into LilyPond. You may want to give
them a try.

cheers,
Janek