On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 16:52 +0100, Mick wrote: > Thanks Daniel, > > On Monday, 21 October 2019 15:27:18 BST dan...@sonck.nl wrote: > > 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. > > There have been a relatively large number of OMR projects falling in > and out > of obscurity, forked, taken over, mixed with closed source and then > die. > > I was looking for an OMR package in portage to scan PDF sheets of > music and > then split different voice parts out into separate midi files - but > if a > single application will do the full workflow then I would be more > than happy. > > > > 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 > > I understand there are a few apps by/for Apple, who seem to be the > favourite > OS for arty users, but I no longer have OSX running here or any > applications > for it. There are also a number of other applications some of them > for Linux > - but I haven't found one yet in portage (TBH I wouldn't know its > name off- > hand). > > From what I read here Rosegarden will not perform OMR itself, but > will import > various file formats: > > https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/doc/en/file-other.html >
http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/omr.html There are a few here that have potential, both free and paid. If you find one that works well, writing an ebuild for it shouldn't be too terribly difficult. LMP
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