There is a program called Audiverts. I have not tried it, but it looks
to be a start of what you are after.

Regards,
Shane

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM,  <rathcof...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I've been thinking about this for some time.  Finally it dawned on me.
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> LilyPond processes text statements & produces the music notation in a PDF
> file.
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> Why not reverse the process and go from PDF (e.g., scanned in), back to
> text?
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> (It's probably a nightmare programming task.)  It might require the scanned
> image to have alignment marks, and/or be cleaned up in some way.  I think
> I'd start by developing a program to convert a single line (one staff), like
> the attached Bouree, which I created with Lily Pond.  I'd begin by focusing
> on the clef sign and the key signature.  The user might have to indicate
> what the first note is, or confirm that the program had correctly identified
> the first note.
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> Just a thought.
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> Mike Wogan
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