Originally Posted by mcathymatthew

hi everyone!!

I am a final year student doing software engineering..
I need help on my final year project. I am interested in music. i have an idea but i am not sure it can be finished in 7 months time or not. my plan is a sheet music reader. A system that is capble to scan a sheet of music and analyse it. XML file should be generated that captures as much as possible of the music information on the music sheet. Then generating MIDI output from the Music XML file. I really do not know how to do go about ..how do convert the image of the scanned document into a xml? And how do i convert it into midi? What are the areas of study i need to consider? Please give me advice on this project.
I thank all of you in advance!!

MIDI-XML version 0.02
=====================

MIDI-XML is a suite of Perl modules that provide the capability to convert
MIDI files to XML and XML to MIDI files. It builds on the foundation provided
by MIDI-Perl which provides the capability to read and write MIDI files. This
initial release provides the ability to produce and parse MidiXML. The
classes may subclassed to provide support for other DTDs.

MIDI-XML also provides built-in collections of the the various MIDI events and
derivable collections, such as measures.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

MIDI::Opus MIDI::Track MIDI::Event HTML::Entities XML:arser

SUPPORT

Questions, bug reports, useful code bits, and suggestions for
MIDI-XML should just be sent to me at bmames@apk.net

DOCUMENT TYPE DEFINITIONS

The DTD for MidiXML may be had at this URL:

http://www.musicxml.org/dtds/midixml.dtd

This release supports version 0.7

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of MIDI-XML is available from the Comprehensive
Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to
find a CPAN site near you.

i have collected this info for u
any queries further
or if u want a prototype for ur project pm me