Classification and Recognition of Neume Note Notation in Historical Documents

Neume musical notation is a type of writing of Christian Orthodox Church chant originated in Ancient Byzantium, which is still used by the Orthodox Church. The big varieties of preserved historical documents, which contain neumes give reach material for investigations in fields like history, cultural sciences, etc. This causes the natural need of a software package which can help these investigations. Such software can be OCR (Optical Character Recognition) based which will help the analyses of the neume notation in the scanned historical documents. In this paper we present an overview of the methods, which can be used to create a system for automated recognition of neumes.

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