Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

[Mick]

On Monday, 21 October 2019 12:39:03 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 20/10/19 13:39, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation
> > from scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files.  Apparently there are
> > some apps in the Apple store, but I have not yet found anything in
> > portage.
> >
> > Do you have experience using any tools for this purpose?
>
> I'm not aware of any apps at all. Rosegarden is a midi editor, and might
> have some scanning ability. Lilypond is a music publishing program and
> can generate midi output. If you transcribed your music into either of
> those programs (Rosegarden would be best) you can generate midi, but
> that's work you clearly would rather avoid ...
>
> Cheers,
> Wol

Thanks Wol, yes, I suspect asking the user to transcribe umpteen sheets of 
music notation manually from PDF won't go down nicely.

I'll check Rosegarden again in case it can perform OMR.

-- 
Regards,

Mick