Proposed Feature: OCR for generating guitar tablature from scanned sheet music

• Mar 7, 2016 - 21:51

Hi,

I am considering a few different projects to potentially pursue as part of Google Summer of Code. I would love your feedback and suggestions regarding these proposed features!

I am interested in implementing OCR capabilities for handwritten guitar tablature. As I understand it, OCR technology as it pertains to general music notation is rather unreliable at the present time due to the wide variability in symbols and styles used in general music notation. However, guitar tablature is significantly simpler than the general notational case in that it consists only of fret numbers and a few additional characters for indicating certain performance techniques. Since current OCR implementations already achieve very high accuracy in identifying handwritten numbers, applying OCR to guitar tablature should not be too significant a leap.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Thanks,

Daniel

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