Finale and Sibelius have OCR plugins or addons, and I've used one of them as a demo (I'm 99.9% sure it was Sibelius) and it was atrocious. It would take longer to fix all its mistakes than it would to just enter your music from scratch, I think. Maybe the version you buy is better than the demo but I doubt it. I can't imagine anyone buying it after using the demo! Myriad (the makers of Harmony Assistant) have a program called PDF-to-Music that does pretty well, but then you're stuck with the file in their closed-source format. I'd be interested to know of a non-proprietary music OCR program as well. Good luck.
Tim Reeves > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:50:40 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: OCR to lilypond > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > I've used just about every notaion program that exists, but I still like to > just write out my sheets on staff paper with a pencil prior to entering the > data into a formal notaion software like lilypond or whatever. > > It would be wonderful if I could generate lilypond source code from a > hand-written staff initially, then go back and tweak it in code. After all, > all the information is there on the page, it just needs to be interpreted. > > Is anyone aware of any commercial program, dll, or open source projects that > are working on music OCR that would have the potential to (one day) be used > to generate lilypond source code? Preferably open source. > >
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