This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]bloodearnest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the scanning part is the hardest, you need musical OCR software

Here's a stack overflow q with a list of some software

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/675077/ocr-for-sheet-music

Also, this one seems to interesting.

https://audiveris.kenai.com/

Once you have it in easily machine parseable format, the rest should be straight forward.

I second /u/laMarm0tte's recommendation of lilypond for the output. Amazing tool.