I believe he said 97%, but I don't recall the percentage with 100 % accuracy, or something like that. All I know is my violist friend, who has been using Finale for years, is now scanning rather than any of his other note entry choices, when it comes to entering a clean printed work. Enough said.
(Hell, I don't get 95% accuracy with Speedy Entry!) RH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Daley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius - subset: Finale lies? > At 2/9/2004 12:17 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: > > >"Lies" is a strong word, and here, unjustified. > > > >But I would have agreed with you on the scanning until last week. A friend > >of mine (a viola player and user of WinFin2003) astounded me, just a few > >days ago, by telling me that he has been having great success scanning. > >After some trial and error, he scans viola parts and up to four-part scores > >regularly, with what he estimates at something like 95 to 97% accuracy. > > Note bene: I am not familiar with note scanning software. > > I am _extremely_ familiar with character scanning software. > > "95% accuracy" in scanning conversion to text produces a useless > document. It is more work to clean up that mess than to retype it from > scratch. > > 95% "sounds" good. In reality, it produces an illegible (and unreadable) > text document. > > Phil Daley < AutoDesk > > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
