Any ideas for a "Virtual Scanner"?

[TraumaBrain]

Hi!,

Newb here with tighty-whities on! I am looking for software that will fool my mac into thinking that a image that I can supply is coming from a scanner.

Now for the backstory...

I am an untalented musician and am trying to import a .gif file of a music score into a music composition program. This particular program allows one to scan musical scores into the software to be read by the software's OCR funtion. I dont have a scanner. I DO have a gif file of the particular score that I am attempting to scan.

I would like to be able to convince this music compostion software that my "scanner" is ready to copy my score, when in fact I am simply supplying a .gif/jpeg/etc file to the software.

Catch my drift? Any ideas of how I can make this happen?

Thanks for the help!!!

 

[munkery]

What program are you using?

It doesn't have any other import options?

 

[MisterMe]

...This particular program allows one to scan musical scores into the software to be read by the software's OCR funtion. ...

What is "This particular program"?

 

[gorskiegangsta]

Hi!,

Newb here with tighty-whities on! I am looking for software that will fool my mac into thinking that a image that I can supply is coming from a scanner.

Now for the backstory...

I am an untalented musician and am trying to import a .gif file of a music score into a music composition program. This particular program allows one to scan musical scores into the software to be read by the software's OCR funtion. I dont have a scanner. I DO have a gif file of the particular score that I am attempting to scan.

I would like to be able to convince this music compostion software that my "scanner" is ready to copy my score, when in fact I am simply supplying a .gif/jpeg/etc file to the software.

Catch my drift? Any ideas of how I can make this happen?

Thanks for the help!!!

Convert your image to .tiff and your OCR software should be able to pick it up directly.

 

[TraumaBrain]

Thanks for the response everyone!

The "particular software" that I am using is Finale 2011. It does not have any sort of other import options.

I have converted my image to a .tiff file but it didn't matter because I don't have any sort of interface between the converted .tiff image and the Finale software, so my mac does not see any scanners available.

I am wondering if anyone knows of any sort of software/program/interface/etc that will "convince" my computer that whatever software it is is a scanner. This would allow me to perform OCR on any image without actually having to have a physical scanner to do the job.

Kind of like how you can have a virtual dvd (MagicDisk), or a virtual computer(VirtualMachine). Possibly even as SoundFlower, which presents itself a an audiodevice to the computer.

Im not sure if I explained that correctly...

Thanks for your help so far everyone!