Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
After opening the result in MuseScore and editing so that it is perfect, then you can export as MIDI which, again, might not be perfect.

I own a number of scanning/conversion apps. Are any of them really good? Not in my experience. Heaven help you if the original score contains marks unsupported by MusicXML 3.0 including those damned dotted slurs.

I generally find that re-entering from scratch is faster than scanning and converted. The human brain is much smarter than any of these apps.

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I worked professionally 20+ years in the world of character recognition and text search. Long before AI when Google was just starting to figure things out. The overwhelming cost (by a long shot) in any conversion effort was the cost of cleanup. Correcting mistakes made by the recognition engines(s). We used multiple recognition engines in a variety of approaches. At first we thought was that 90-95% was "good enough". It was not. 98-99% was minimum tolerable. With music I would imagine you need to be out .9995 or so to be happy.

Cleaning up a mess is pretty annoying work.


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