Re: Toolchain: hardcopy -> scanned sheet-music -> lilypond?

[Phil Burfitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; "Thorsten Jolitz" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Toolchain: hardcopy -> scanned sheet-music -> lilypond?


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thorsten Jolitz" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 2:28 PM
> Subject: Toolchain: hardcopy -> scanned sheet-music -> lilypond?
>
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I wonder if anyone discovered a toolchain that would allow to
> >
> > 1. scan sheet-music (e.g. solo transcriptions with many many notes
> >    ...)
> >
> > 2. convert the scanner-output to lilypond (maybe via an intermediary
> >    format like xml or so)?
> >
> > and what kind of software they used for it?
> >
> > Thanks for any hint.
>
> My toolchain is slightly longer, but I don't see why this could not be 
> truncated.
>
> I use SharpEye (http://www.visiv.co.uk/) to generate XML.  For historical 
> reasons I then import the MusicXML into Noteworthy composer, then export 
> from that as Lilypond.  The amount of correction required depends on how 
> good the original music was.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
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There's also PDFToMusic

http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm

which can play the music and export to MusicXML.


Phil.