On 2/7/11, rathcof...@comcast.net <rathcof...@comcast.net> wrote: > LilyPond processes text statements & produces the music notation in a PDF > file. > > Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to > text?
This is an active area of research; look for "music OCR" or "score OCR" on google scholar. Most papers that I've seen export data in musicxml format, but if you particularly want it in lilypond, you can convert is with musicxml2ly. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user