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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.music,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Music Scanner (was Re: NOTATOR)
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Date: 20 Feb 90 03:09:27 GMT
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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?

How are you going to transcribe the rhythm? Looks like a massive problem to 
me.