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hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
   Hey - does anyone know of any optical scanner package that includes
   *music* recognition software? It seems like this would be a lot
   easier to implement than a general purpose text recognizer, and there
   are zillions of those out (for the Mac at least). I'd really like
   a quick way to get printed music into electronic form. Any ideas?
   --
     -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan

I was at  an Amiga conference last year, and remember talking to a
scanner company about exactly that.   They asked me if I thought it
was a good idea, because one of their developers had thought of it.  I
thought, gee, that would be nifty.  Then, I thought...

Well, this would really come in handy for loading preprinted scores
into MIDI files for editing.  However -- how many of those do I have?
Answer: not many.  I've got lots of fake-book type lead sheets, and
lots of hand-written music, but not too much preprinted stuff.  I
think that the software would *not* be able to do handwritten stuff,
because of the obvious problems. ( OCR software can't handle
handwriting very well either. ) Without that ability, it would be
nearly useless for me, and I thought for lots of others.

In short:  I think that there is not such a package availble.

Sorry if I caused the early death of such a project ;-)

~~~Steve
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