chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 12 days agoWhat software does not exist but you wish it did?message-squaremessage-square235linkfedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·12 days agoIt exists, but every bit of software I’ve tried has incredibly poor performance on anything except the absolute cleanest typset printed pieces.
minus-squareLumpyPancakes@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·12 days agoI wonder if an AI can do that? It’s obsoleted LeafSnap.
minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·12 days agojust tried with the free version of claude. It works a lot better than anything else I’ve tried but it’s not perfect, averaging ~2 mistakes per 10 bars for a relatively simple score.
minus-squareLumpyPancakes@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·12 days agoSeems strange that it’s so hard to get right. I guess it’s a bit like reading handwriting - subtle tiny differences? Does it give you a midi file from a scanned musical piece?
minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 days agoIt outputs ABC notation, not midi. MIDI isn’t really the right format for sheet music.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 days agoWikipedia has a section on how it works and at least to some degree also why it’s hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition#Approaches_to_OMR
It exists, but every bit of software I’ve tried has incredibly poor performance on anything except the absolute cleanest typset printed pieces.
I wonder if an AI can do that? It’s obsoleted LeafSnap.
just tried with the free version of claude. It works a lot better than anything else I’ve tried but it’s not perfect, averaging ~2 mistakes per 10 bars for a relatively simple score.
Seems strange that it’s so hard to get right. I guess it’s a bit like reading handwriting - subtle tiny differences?
Does it give you a midi file from a scanned musical piece?
It outputs ABC notation, not midi. MIDI isn’t really the right format for sheet music.
Wikipedia has a section on how it works and at least to some degree also why it’s hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition#Approaches_to_OMR