1. Optical Musical Recognition
Digitizing Sheet Music Scores using Optical Musical Recognition
Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference
August 9, 2016
Andrew Bullen, Illinois State Library

2. The Mysterious Ax-Man

3. An Equally Mysterious Letter…

4. The Mysterious Axman’s Jazz

6. Software available 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(?)
SharpEye By Visiv SharpEye
SmartScore By Musitek SmartScore. Formerly packaged as "MIDISCAN". (SmartScore Lite is used in Finale).
VivaldiScan (same as SharpEye) VivaldiScan

7. Sharpeye 2 by Visiv Software http://www.visiv.co.uk/

8. Start with an image editing program
Convert or save scans or images to a TIFF File, DPI, no compression.
Try and remove as much foxing, discoloration, etc. from the scan.
It helps to save them as a black and white (or grayscale) image.
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.

9. Not a whole lot to look at…

10. Open an image

11. Read an image or batch read a group of images

12. Results

13. An error. Sharpeye read this in the key of B, when it’s in the key of E.

14. Basic Sharpeye editing tools
Left Mouse Button EDITS
Right Mouse Button INSERTS
Shift Left Button SELECTS a number of notes

15. Inserting a missing note in a chord, use INSERT and the “Add Head to Chord” command…

16. Save as a MIDI file

17. Convert the MIDI file in another program Audacity: https://sourceforge

18. Example: The Music of Pullman http://www. pullman-museum

19. Example: The Music of the First World War http://www. idaillinois

20. Example record http://www. idaillinois

21. Wikipedia page

22. Link to the music?

23. SoundCite from Knight Labs @ IEN

25. Useful links
SHARPEYE MANUAL:

26. Some sheet music sources
Sheet music consortium:
Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection:
Chicago Jazz Archives:
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca to