I vaguely remember using some windows based program when archiving old music. The community in question had maps full of paper scores and making them digital would have made it much more compact and versatile. However even back then I remember manually writing lilypond files. I did use Linux at that time but wasn't aware of any OMR tools.
Eventually I stopped visiting and the project fell out of favor due to the immense manual labour. Literally hundreds of sheet music ranging from single page meant for the artists up to the combined score for the conductor. A quick search led me to audiveris. I have no experience but it might do what you want. It has the option to export to MusicXML. I tried to use Rosegarden to read a MusicXML which "worked". It did get the notes right, but alternated with trebble and bass lines, being a somewhat monophonic end result. Hope this helps Daniel On Monday, October 21, 2019 1:39:03 PM CEST Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/10/19 13:39, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation > > from scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are > > some apps in the Apple store, but I have not yet found anything in > > portage. > > > > Do you have experience using any tools for this purpose? > > I'm not aware of any apps at all. Rosegarden is a midi editor, and might > have some scanning ability. Lilypond is a music publishing program and > can generate midi output. If you transcribed your music into either of > those programs (Rosegarden would be best) you can generate midi, but > that's work you clearly would rather avoid ... > > Cheers, > Wol
