Re: scanning music and transposing

[Nicholas Bailey]

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On 15 Jan 2006, at 4:45 pm, Robert T Wyatt wrote:

> Hi Lilypond folks,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has scanned sheet music and then used 
> Lilypond to transpose keys (especially on a Macintosh). I've googled a 
> bit and haven't found a method for doing this yet. Any guidance is 
> appreciated.
This is actually quite difficult!

Kia Ng in Leeds knows how to do it

        http://www.kcng.org/omr/

but it's a big deal. I think he charges money to do it. But he can 
handle hand-written stuff as well as printed. I don't know if he has a 
lilypond backend.

Nick/.

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