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Ryan,

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 ;).

Three answers and a funer^H^H^H link:

1) there are several programs that claim doing this
2) If you take the best possible program of this category and use it to
   convert sheet music to MIDI, you will lose almost every information
   about the score, because MIDI cant't store it. It's useless as
   exchanging sheet music between music notation programs via MIDI.
   An OMR program must have an output format like NIFF.
3) No existing OMR program is good enough to save you time. This
   also has to to with the fact that (user interfaces of) music notation
   programs aren't made for maintenace.

http://www.s-line.de/homepages/gerd_castan/compmus/omr_e.html

With kind regards,
  Gerd