Klarinet Archive - Posting 000336.txt from 2001/01

From: Oliver Seely <oliver-seely@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:09:26 -0500

George,

I did a test several years ago with MIDISCAN to determine how much time it
would actually save me in converting printed scores to Finale files. From
the cleanest copy the time saving ended up being around 20% from that
required to put in the notes from my numeric key pad. I decided that the
reason there was so little to gain was that MIDISCAN made all kinds of
mistakes requiring essentially a full manual check measure by measure of
what had been created. The bottom line is that very little time was saved.
There is very definitely a psychological factor here. The user of a more
efficient program develops a confidence in that efficiency and then cuts
back on the manual checks. What kinds of errors are made by Sharpeye?

Oliver

At 07:09 PM 1/10/01 -0500, George Kidder wrote:

>I might also suggest you investigate "Sharpeye", which is a music OCR
>program working with a flatbed scanner to produce a product which can be
>converted into a MIDI file and then imported. It is not 100% accurate, but
>it is better than the demo version of MIDIscan which I tried a few years
>ago, and is much cheaper ($50). I am still trying to decide whether to
>purchase it or not - probably will.
>

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