Re: converting from PDF

[Francisco Vila]

2011/2/7 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On 2/7/11, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
>> LilyPond processes text statements & produces the music notation in a PDF
>> file.
>>
>> Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to
>> text?
>
> This is an active area of research; look for "music OCR" or "score
> OCR" on google scholar.  Most papers that I've seen export data in
> musicxml format, but if you particularly want it in lilypond, you can
> convert is with musicxml2ly.

Let me contribute with http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/omr.html

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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