Klarinet Archive - Posting 000652.txt from 2010/09

From: Simon Aldrich <simonaldrich@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Converting IMSLP files to midi format
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:54:19 -0400

I asked:
>> 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?

Joseph replied:
> 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 ... :-)

You are right! I didn't think of that - that Smartscore Lite might be
hobbled in such a way as to not include in the resulting file
everything it is capable of recognizing (like including a word
processor that is missing some letters!).
I imported identical tiff files into Smartscore Lite and Smartscore
Pro (10.3.2).
The resulting files (in this case xml, to allow import into Finale)
were quite different. The full version of Smartscore produced a file
that included slurs, text, dynamics, crescendi, etc, all which
remained after import into Finale. This will save a lot of time.
In addition, Smartscore Pro imports pdfs (the Lite version doesn't).
All those wasted hours!

I imported a page of a hand-written part (clarinet pg 1of Iwan
Muller's Quartet for clarinet and strings). The results were
understandably less successful but hopeful nonetheless.

Tom - if you can get a version of Smartscore Pro (Smartscore X Pro if
on a Mac), you won't have to scan the pdf (to produce a tiff file to
get it into Finale, since Finale's Smartscore Lite only imports
tiffs). You can import the pdf (multiple pages as well) directly into
Smartscore Pro, save the result as an xml file and import that into
Finale. This procedure bypasses Finale's built-in disabled Smartscore
Lite and produces a file that file contains most of the slurs,
dynamics, etc, saving a lot of time.

Thanks Joseph!

Simon
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