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Scanning music.

Is there a way to get an input to Noteworthy for editing by scanning sheet music - rather like OCR for words?

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Try the search function on this forum. Briefly: No.

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Make that a definite maybe.
I've downloaded the trial-version of Sharpeye. So, for thirty days I can scan, save as .bmp or .tiff, and convert into Midi using Sharpeye. This is not exactly flawless, but it works.

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"S. Earch?"
Pronounced "Ess Earch?"

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Just posting here so people know to also check the thread called Finale to Noteworthy where I describe my experience with Sharpeye and a converter program.

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And to take Rob's 'definite maybe' a bit further.

Sharpeye can save as a music xml file. You can then use Nicolas Hatiers program mxml2nwc to convert the music xml into nwc2.

Works very well.  Need some special considerations for the grand staff, but unlike loading midi into nwc, with this method, items such as hairpins, slurs etc and triplets are imported properly !

Rich.

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items such as hairpins, slurs etc and triplets are imported properly

You still have to check them.  It all depends on how good your image was when you scanned it, I guess.

I had hairpins and slurs start at the wrong place, or not show at all.  Triplets sometimes worked well, other times the tripletized notes were left out - for instance when they were 8th or 16th note triplets.  Accidental sharps were often missed. 

Nevertheless, editing the notes that are there already is a heck of lot better than entering them all, and I can't be sure some of the inaccuracies didn't arise from the TIF files, which I created in Finale, then processed in Sharpeye.