[ddots-l] Re: scanning music textbooks?
- From: "John Sanfilippo" <vze33fba@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:47:47 -0400
Indeed,
This sounds like a job for the Duxbury/Goodfeel partnership.
I haven't attempted a big project like this, but I have worked on a
piece by piece basis where both the music and text are of interest to
me.
What I do is use sharpeye just to grab the images and process the music,
then, keeping those images, I put them thru open book to get the text.
But I'm not necessarily outputting braille from this.
Now, the lyric text often is split by spaces, dashes or periods, so I
wrote a little program which processes the text, stripping out these
extras, so that when the text is heard in speech or viewed on a braille
display, it is clearer and more conjunct. One undesirable consequence of
this process is that date year ranges become joined long numbers, so
that a composer's birth and death such as 1848 - 1897 becomes 18481897.
Js
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On Behalf Of Chris Smart
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 20:01
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] scanning music textbooks?
Hi folks. So far, I have only scanned one or two pages at a time
with SharpEye + Lime + Goodfeel. Note, I have the latest Goodfeel
package.
Now I want to attempt a big project over the summer. I have two
textbooks, both containing lots of music notation and paragraphs of
text, and both several hundred pages in length. What's the best
strategy for attacking something big like this? Will SharpEye
retain the paragraphs or pages of text, or will I have to re-scan
the book in another program, like Openbook, to get the text, then
splice in the music examples?
Has anybody else here attempted a whole textbook like this?
thanks for any suggestions. Just wanting to keep the process as
efficient and streamlined as possible. *grin*
Chris
P.S. Besides the software that came with my HP 6350C scanner the HP
Precision Scan Pro application, I also have Openbook 7.02. I
mention this because it also has an image only setting, and people
report that it's output is very easy to read when I scan a page and
send it to them as graphics. Is there any advantage to using this
rather than the HP software, as a frontend for SharpEye?
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