Interest survey for including a scanning/OCR feature in Notation Composer -reply here

[Sherry C]

Hi Ken,

Thanks very much for your input here. We have indeed decided that rather than try to work on an internal scan-to-notation utility (which is a HUGE project), that we would focus on having MusicXML import for just the reason that you have mentioned

We do not have a schedule in place for that yet because even having MusicXML import is a large project, especially given the still-varying standards of MusicXML, but we do see this as our next big goal for Notation Composer.

Thanks,
Sherry

[rrayner]

Neuratron just came out with 8.8.2 of PhotoScore Ultimate. I scanned a PDF, exported to XML, opened with Sibelius, exported to MID, opened with Notation Composer. It looks and sounds pretty good.

Ralph Rayner

[Sherry C]

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for that assessment! We're looking more closely at the MusicXML export and import, so this is indeed helpful information

ttfn,
Sherry

[rrayner]

...but a lot depends on the crispness of the PDF. "Rock of Ages" is very clean. Other PDFs I have that aren't as crisp turn out unusable garbage. RRR

[Reinhold H.]

Hi all,

First of all thanks to all the comments.

We have been investigating the concept of scanning using the scanning engine of SharpEye 2 (which also made it partly into PhotoScore) for several months. The findings about the scanning quality are pretty close to what has been reported here in this thread. In addition we had negotiations with the Visiv Ltd, a UK company which is owned by Neuratron Ltd about licensing the engine. Unfortunately we were unable to reach agreement on the license pricing and other conditions. The required license prices, the upfront costs as well as our own development expenses for an integration simply do not justify such an integrated feature.

We therefore decided not to further pursue this feature option of an integrated scanning feature any longer. We will focus our energy on MusicXML import and the next new format of MNX.

Reinhold