Xref: utzoo comp.music:781 comp.sys.atari.st:25510 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!columbia!cs.columbia.edu!cs.columbia.edu!abrams From: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Music Scanner (was Re: NOTATOR) Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 90 00:33:02 GMT References: <5819@blake.acs.washington.edu> <11029@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Sender: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 19 Feb 90 06:18:33 GMT hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes: Hey - does anyone know of any optical scanner package that includes *music* recognition software? It seems like this would be a lot easier to implement than a general purpose text recognizer, and there are zillions of those out (for the Mac at least). I'd really like a quick way to get printed music into electronic form. Any ideas? -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan I was at an Amiga conference last year, and remember talking to a scanner company about exactly that. They asked me if I thought it was a good idea, because one of their developers had thought of it. I thought, gee, that would be nifty. Then, I thought... Well, this would really come in handy for loading preprinted scores into MIDI files for editing. However -- how many of those do I have? Answer: not many. I've got lots of fake-book type lead sheets, and lots of hand-written music, but not too much preprinted stuff. I think that the software would *not* be able to do handwritten stuff, because of the obvious problems. ( OCR software can't handle handwriting very well either. ) Without that ability, it would be nearly useless for me, and I thought for lots of others. In short: I think that there is not such a package availble. Sorry if I caused the early death of such a project ;-) ~~~Steve -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu * **************************************************/ #include #include -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu *