Transcript Optical Musical Recognition UMDCC AHB

Optical Musical Recognition
DIGITIZING SHEET MUSIC SCORES USING
OPTICAL MUSICAL RECOGNITION
UPPER MIDWEST DIGITAL COLLECTIONS CONFERENCE
AUGUST 9, 2016
ANDREW BULLEN, ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY
[email protected]
312.814.4386
The Mysterious Ax-Man
An Equally Mysterious Letter…
The Mysterious Axman’s Jazz
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2014/03/03/opticalmusic/
Software available
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capella-scan Info capella-scan
ForteScan Light by Fortenotation FORTE Scan Light
MIDI-Connections Scan by MIDI-Connections MIDI-Connections SCAN 2.0
MP Scan by Braeburn Music Publisher Scanning Edition. Uses SharpEye SDK.
MusicReader by Musicreader MusicReader PDF 4.0
NoteScan bundled with Nightingale NoteScan
OMeR (Optical Music easy Reader) Add-on for Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant:
Myriad Software OMeR (ShareWare)
PDFtoMUSIC by Myriad PDFtoMUSIC
PhotoScore by Neuratron PhotoScore Ultimate 7. The Light version of PhotoScore is used
in Sibelius. PhotoScore uses the SharpEye SDK.
ScoreMaker by Kawai Scoremaker (Japanese)
Scorscan by npcImaging ScorScan. Based on SightReader(?)
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SharpEye By Visiv SharpEye
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SmartScore By Musitek SmartScore. Formerly packaged as "MIDISCAN". (SmartScore Lite is
used in Finale).
 VivaldiScan (same as SharpEye) VivaldiScan
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Sharpeye 2 by Visiv Software
http://www.visiv.co.uk/
Start with an image editing program
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Convert or save scans or images to a TIFF File, 200-300
DPI, no compression.
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Try and remove as much foxing, discoloration, etc. from
the scan.
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It helps to save them as a black and white (or grayscale)
image.
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You may have to go back and redo the editing process.
For instance, you may get better results if you use
something like a “sharpen” filter in Photoshop.
Not a whole lot to look at…
Open an image
Read an image or batch read a group of images
Results
An error. Sharpeye read this in the
key of B, when it’s in the key of E.
Basic Sharpeye editing tools
• Left Mouse Button EDITS
• Right Mouse Button INSERTS
• Shift Left Button SELECTS a number
of notes
Inserting a missing note in a chord, use INSERT and
the “Add Head to Chord” command…
Save as a MIDI file
Convert the MIDI file in another program
Audacity: https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
Example: The Music of Pullman
http://www.pullman-museum.org/theCompany/pullmanMusic.html
Example: The Music of the First World War
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/p16614coll23/page/1
Example record
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16614coll23/id/286
Wikipedia page
Link to the music?
SoundCite from Knight Labs @ IEN
https://soundcite.knightlab.com
Useful links
• http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/0
3/03/opticalmusic
• http://www.music-
notation.info/en/compmus/omr.html
• http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february01/choudhury/02c
houdhury.html
SHARPEYE MANUAL:
• http://www.visiv.co.uk/manualv2.pdf
Some sheet music sources
• Sheet music consortium:
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
• Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection:
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
• Chicago Jazz Archives:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/sheetmusic.html
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870 to 1885
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmhome
.html