An Interchange Format for Optical Music Recognition Applications

Page appearance and layout for music notation is a critical component of the overall musical information contained in a document. To capture and transfer this information, we outline an interchange format for OMR applications, the OMR Interchange Package (OIP) format, which is designed to allow layout information and page images to be preserved and transferred along with semantic musical content. We identify a number of uses for this format that can enhance digital representations of music, and introduce a novel idea for distributed optical music recognition system based on this format.

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