Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>
> To: "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden>
>
>>> C) Development of score_ocr2ly, which would take a score pdf and turn it
>>> into .ly files matching the lilypond scoring standard
>>
>> Heh.  This is a known problem, and the OCR part is very, very
>> difficult. It also has nothing to do with lilypond.
>
>
> There are a number of commercial products that, given a perfect
> representation of a score, convert it to perfect musicXML - so it
> can't be that hard.

You sound like a mathematician.  They use "provable" interchangeably
with "trivial".

> It may simply be that the OS community do not generally have these
> skills.

There are a number of commercial violinists.  Does that mean that
playing the violin can't be that hard?

The problem I see here is that an OCR task offers very little if any
synergies with LilyPond work.  Another is that "a perfect
representation" is usually only available when the music _has_ already
been entered into a computer notation program.

-- 
David Kastrup