Re: pdf to .ly?

[Rutger Hofman]

On 01/18/2012 06:09 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Campbell" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: pdf to .ly?
>
>
> > On 12-01-18 05:12 AM, Gerard McConnell wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Does anybody here know of software that could convert a .pdf into
> > > .ly? Mayber .pdf to .xml first, then to .ly?
> > > Or .pdf into .svg, or some sort of image file? I got some music from
> > > the IMSLP site, it needs to be rotated and cleaned up a bit.
> > > Thanks for any help,
> > > Gerard
> >
> >
> > I've been playing around a bit with
> > http://audiveris.kenai.com/index.html but as mentioned elsethread, it
> > takes a fair bit of manual intervention.
> >
> > Colin
>
>
> I use SharpEye quite a bit, and on good scans of clean scores, it does a
> pretty good job. Not cheap, though. http://visiv.co.uk/
>
> --
> Phil Holmes

SharpEye also has a freeware version with some restrictions. One of them 
is that it does not generate MusicXML. It can create NIFF though, and I 
wrote a converter from NIFF to Lilypond: niff2ly. niff2ly generates 
quite old Lilypond, so you will want to run convert-ly over its output, 
and it has its restrictions when voicing becomes complicated.

Download niff and niff2ly from http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rutger/music.html

Rutger