Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-25 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi David, My intelligence (or lack of it) is very difficult to insult! Cheers, Lawrence 2010/1/25 David W. Fenton > On 25 Jan 2010 at 8:42, Lawrence Yates wrote: > > When giving instructions on something like this I start with the > assumption that someone knows as much as I do, in order not

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 25 Jan 2010 at 8:42, Lawrence Yates wrote: > Thanks for your patience - I really needed leading by the hand in this - I'm > in very unknown country here. If you didn't mention a stage which seems > obvious to you then I didn't do it (like using png or actually having to > convert to greyscale)

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-25 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi David, Thanks for your patience - I really needed leading by the hand in this - I'm in very unknown country here. If you didn't mention a stage which seems obvious to you then I didn't do it (like using png or actually having to convert to greyscale) I've done everything you said now and it's

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2010 at 22:37, Lawrence Yates wrote: > Right - thanks, it's the conversion to TIFF bit I was missing - I thought > you saying that I could just import my pdf's from IMSLP directly into > Smartscore. Nope. Smartscore requires graphics files as input, since it was designed for processing

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Right - thanks, it's the conversion to TIFF bit I was missing - I thought you saying that I could just import my pdf's from IMSLP directly into Smartscore. I've just spent most of the afternoon on this and got absolutely nowhere. The time would have been better spent typing the part into Finale by

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2010 at 11:41, dc wrote: > Lawrence Yates écrit: > >Maybe I'm misunderstanding what David wrote: > > > >"I've had really great results importing PDFs downloaded from IMSLP using > >the > >SmartScore Lite that came with Finale 2003 (so, very outdated). Yes, > >it makes many layout and acc

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jan 2010 at 10:17, Lawrence Yates wrote: > I've just tried to import a pdf into smartscore - it won't let me. It says > that it can't import colour documents, even though the pdf is black an white > (by that I mean that it has been printed to pdf as a black and white > document, not just th

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks Dennis, Maybe I'm misunderstanding what David wrote: "I've had really great results importing PDFs downloaded from IMSLP using the SmartScore Lite that came with Finale 2003 (so, very outdated). Yes, it makes many layout and accidental mistakes, but not enough that it's worth it to re-ente

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
I've just tried to import a pdf into smartscore - it won't let me. It says that it can't import colour documents, even though the pdf is black an white (by that I mean that it has been printed to pdf as a black and white document, not just that there was no colour). It doesn't give me any options

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Am 24.01.10 00:06, schrieb David W. Fenton: Also, using PDF-based scanning adds an extra step when you're scanning from hard copy, perhaps not a hard step, but still an extra step. I believe this is a misunderstanding of what PDFtoMusic will do: It cannot work with scanned images at all, inst

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Jan 2010 at 14:15, dc wrote: > David W. Fenton écrit: > >I would expect, though, that the music that really needs to be > >imported is going to be old editions that are just not going to scan > >well at all. I wouldn't even bother with anything other than a source > >that was computer engrav

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Jan 2010 at 21:16, Jari Williamsson wrote: > How is scan conversion quality nowadays? Is there any product available > that with reasonable accuracy will trace scores to MusicXML, including > notes, articulations, beaming, slurs, and expressions? (Lyrics is not > necessary.) If you're sc

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-22 Thread dhbailey
Jari Williamsson wrote: How is scan conversion quality nowadays? Is there any product available that with reasonable accuracy will trace scores to MusicXML, including notes, articulations, beaming, slurs, and expressions? (Lyrics is not necessary.) To the best of my knowledge Sharpeye remai

[Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
How is scan conversion quality nowadays? Is there any product available that with reasonable accuracy will trace scores to MusicXML, including notes, articulations, beaming, slurs, and expressions? (Lyrics is not necessary.) Best regards, Jari Williamsson