[goodfeel] FW: Re: Scanning Questions
- From: "Dancing Dots" <billlist1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:02:36 -0400
Minor correction: I gave the link of
http://www.dancingdots.com/tsgf3/Movies.htm for SharpEye. It is actually
for our page that has some brief online movies showing how to scan and
correct music using SharpEye. There is a script for blind users to read but
these movies are definitely much more helpful to sighted people.
See http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/sharpeye.htm for details and to order
online. For SharpEye.
Bill
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Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 4:49 PM
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [goodfeel] Re: Scanning Questions
Hi, Joleen,
Welcome to our list. I am happy to hear that your initial experience with
GOODFEEL and related products has been positive.
I'll answer your questions using your numbering:
1. No, there's no SharpEye for the MAC. Maybe your friend could run
Windows on her Mac if she has one of those new ones that are based on Intel
technology and get her own copy of SharpEye.
http://www.dancingdots.com/tsgf3/Movies.htm
2. SharpEye is OCR software for music. What you will need is help with
correcting SharpEye's interpretation of the image and not the image itself.
Some other ideas:
Your friend could acquire something like Finale or Sibelius which are two
mainstream music programs which run on the Mac. Both of them come with
optional scanning features. She could scan and make any corrections using
one of those programs. Then she could export as MusicXML. At this stage,
we would recommend Finale's MusicXML export feature over that of Sibelius.
It loses less data in the translation. The Sibelius MusicXML export feature
is an extra cost and the Finale MusicXML feature is part of the program.
Again, although you will definitely be able to import into Lime the MusicXML
from either of these programs and get the correct notes and rhythms, sooner
or later some details of the score will not get translated. For example,
there might be a rehearsal marker of letter "J". You know, the conductor
says: "OK, everyone, let's start at letter J." Those rehearsal markers
don't get saved to the MusicXML export. So for those items or anything
else that's important to be in the braille score, someone must use Lime to
enter them back into the score before transcribing it with GOODFEEL. In the
case of markers, you just move to the measure that needs the marker and go
to Annotations | Text Category | Rehearsal, type in the letter or number
required and press ESCAPE. The good news is that there is a Mac version of
Lime and Lime files created on the Mac can be opened by your Windows version
of Lime.
Alternatively, you might experiment with something like GoToMyPC and allow
your friend to connect directly to your machine and use SharpEye to make the
necessary corrections. GoToMyPC is a subscription-based service that costs
$20 per month or so. There may be no-cost alternatives. Maybe others here
will have some ideas.
3. Tapping into some kind of community-based or church-based volunteer
network has worked for many of our blind GOODFEEL users. Again, we do sell
individual licenses of SharpEye. See
http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/sharpeye.htm for details and to order
online.
Thanks for posting these good questions to our list. I am sure this
information will be of interest to a number of subscribers.
Regards,
Bill
Bill McCann
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992 www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
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From: goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joleen
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 3:35 PM
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [goodfeel] Scanning Questions
Hi All, I am one of the newest users of the Goodfeel Software, having just
made my purchase last Wednesday. I am thrilled with the things it has
already been able to allow me to do. I have brailled my first music and
have committed much of it to memory.
(its an easy piece).
My biggest obstacle aside from the learning curve to use it at all is the
sporadic availability of sighted assistance. Counting the time spent with
the demo and now the fully functional version, I have had a total of 4
sessions with help of three different people. The learning curve is steep.
The person who seems most willing to commit time for helping me is a
Macintosh computer user and lives about 20 miles away.
Getting together is a problem.
1. Is there an equivalent scanning software for sighted people that runs on
Macintosh and can convert scanned music to niff format? Is there a web site
that I could check out?
2. Is it workable for me to scan music into a .tif document and join
multiple sheets together after converting it to music and then sending the
combined file without corrections to my friend?
I am thinking that she can make the corrections from her house more easily
than coming here and I can do the work of converting to Lime and then
GoodFeel myself.
3. My next option is to contact the schools in this area and see if the
music teachers can find a student willing to give me some help, possibly
making it some kind of an extra school project.
What are some ways that the rest of you have solved the reader availability
problem?
Thanks for any and all suggestions.
Joleen
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