read printed and/or handwritten music
Hello,
I'm new here.
First, I would like to thank and to congratulate the creator on this program.
My question is this:
Is it possible to read printed and/or handwritten music after scanning it?
Perhaps there exists a supplementary program which can do this work and supplement musescore.
thank you to help me.
Thospa
Comments
Additional software is required. Wikipedia has an article about it. Music OCR . Audiveris is free. If you consider purchasing scanning software then I woulds strongly recommend trying the demos with some some sample scans you'll be doing rather than believing their advertisements. When I did this a couple years ago the results and accuracy varied significantly between the packages. At that time SharpEye was the only package that did a decent job with lyrics. I haven't tried scanning handwritten music. At the time there wasn't any commercial software to do this.
In reply to Additional software is by David Bolton
I agree, SharpEye is imo the best software for this, it's fast and you can export MusicXML, NIFF, and MIDI. But it costs money. Audiveris does an okay job, but it ran pretty slow on my computer and I didn't spend enough time studying how to use it...
In reply to I agree, SharpEye is imo the by oshkoshbjosh.m…
Sharpeye has some little issues with valid musicXML export. PhotoScore & PDFtoMusic are better for musicXML export. At least, for now.
In reply to Sharpeye by Thomas
I've tried PDFtoMusic Pro and for it seems that when it reads a piece perfectly then the xml is perfect, but if there'ss an error then it could mess up the whole thing and require much fixing. Also PDFtoMusic only reads PDF's made from computer software, and sometimes the fonts get messed up and it can't even do that. SharpEye is very advanced for reading any scanned or tif piece of music.
In reply to Additional software is by David Bolton
Thank you, I will test the two solutions.