please help me!!! final year student

Posted by Catherine Matthews on Jan 19, 2006; 5:19am
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i am a final year software engineering student
I am planning to do intepret musical sheet (documents) into a midi file.
Can i use java for that. If so please tell me what are the available
plugins or dll's available. Is there any other suggestion? I have read
some articles on coverting documents in xml into midi? but i cannot
undersatnd how is it possible to convert the document into xml at the
first place. What are the free optical recognizer software available for
musical notations?
please help me for i have just 8 months to finish this project. And i am
struggling at the very first stage
 I thank you in advance
Catherine matthews