Klarinet Archive - Posting 000627.txt from 2010/09

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Converting IMSLP files to midi format
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:29:54 -0400

On 09/23/2010 09:28 PM, Simon Aldrich wrote:
> One would think the complex task for the computer is recognizing the
> notes and converting them into an editable file. It does that quite
> well. How is it then, that it cannot recognize a simple p or an mp or
> a Langsam? Does it need a supplementary text-OCR component as well?

You said you were using SmartScore Lite -- might this be the reason?
Both Finale and Sibelius have a habit of including add-ons that are
annoyingly incomplete so as to induce you to shell out extra for the
full version ... :-)

As for the hardness of the problem, well, it _is_ hard; but I misread
Tom's email to mean that he was interested in scanning handwritten
parts. Even for well-written ones, that's a strikingly difficult task
(you'd have to train the program to recognize the indvidual user's
musical handwriting).

For well-engraved scores I imagine the task is not quite so difficult,
because those images can be more readily separated into the elements the
program would need to derive the semantic information.
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