Re: Optical Note Recognition/Optical Music Recognition?

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From: Harvey Gerst
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:25

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"Ryan Cassidy" <ryan.cassidy@home.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Is anyone aware of a program/software package that can take a scanned piece
>of sheet music, and convert this into its MIDI equivalent?  I've heard of
>Optical Character Recognition (OCR) before, but only one or two rumours
>about any sort of music recognition software.  I would be very interested to
>hear about ongoing developments in this vein.  Software like this would be
>invaluable, IMO, given the vast amounts of sheet music available, and
>relatively small number of late nights to spend electronically transcribing
>it ;).

Ryan, it's called "MIDISCAN" and it's made by MUSITEK. Try:
http://www.musitek.com for more information.

Harvey Gerst
Indian Trail Recording Studio
http://www.ITRstudio.com/

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From: Harvey Gerst <harvey@ITRstudio.com>
Subject: Re: Optical Note Recognition/Optical Music Recognition?
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