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Extracting lyrics from Sharpeye MRO files

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/

Re: Extracting lyrics from Sharpeye MRO files

Reply #1 –
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!

Re: Extracting lyrics from Sharpeye MRO files

Reply #2 –
Hi Heather,

Interested in your solution, but could not acccess either of your listed sites.

Regards, John