Re: converting from PDF

[Gerard McConnell]

This one has been around for a few years and the demo looks good - 
 http://www.braeburn.co.uk/demos/scanning.html
gerard

>
> This is an active area of research; look for "music OCR" or "score
> OCR" on google scholar.  Most papers that I've seen export data in
> musicxml format, but if you particularly want it in lilypond, you can
> convert is with musicxml2ly.

Let me contribute with http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/omr.html

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)