Attention all music scanners!
In despair of finding a solution to the problem of getting lyrics out of files made by the Sharpeye OCR program, I wrote a Perl script to do the job. (You need Perl on your machine to run it.) It outputs all verses, one staff per line and with a blank line betweeen verses, to a text file called <foo>_lyrics.txt (where <foo>.mro is the Sharpeye file you've input). You can preserve dashes between syllables, like you'd need to cut-n-paste into NWC, or not. I use it for hymns and find it saves me a whale of time. You're welcome to try it out; please let me know if you have problems or suggestions.
http://www.pateys.nf.ca/geekdom/sharpeye_lyrics.shtml
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Heather Patey
hpatey@nfld.com
http://www.pateys.nf.ca/music/
Thank you!
I suspect several folks out there are using Sharpeye, since it does a credible job of ocr'ing music. Your method will allow for copy/pasting into the nwc lyric dialogue box.
Have you thought about shooting your info to Sharpeye. Perhaps they might want to link to it!
Hi Heather,
Interested in your solution, but could not acccess either of your listed sites.
Regards, John
Server's been down, sorry - should be up now (Monday morning).
http://www.pateys.nf.ca/geekdom/sharpeye_lyrics.shtml
I'd write Sharpeye except for the small problem of being a unregistered user for far too long... it's quite expensive!
Cheers, Heather
hpatey@nfld.com