Posted by ch-2 on Jan 19, 2006; 7:46am URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/please-help-me-final-year-student-tp3704018p3704019.html
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:19 -0500, Catherine Matthews wrote:
> 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
Your best bet may be http://www.mip.sdu.dk/ipl98/ (a free image
processing library). As you're a software engineering student, I'm sure
you're most interested in writing a program to turn scanned images into
MIDI files for playing; this library is chock full of good stuff for
that.