MusicStaves Toolkit for Gamera
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Purpose
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An important preprocessing step in Optical Music Recognition is the removal
of staff lines. This toolkit provides methods for removing staff lines from
a music image and for querying their positions afterwards.

Apart from the basic functionality, this toolkit also provides

 - a unified interface to different staff removal algorithms
 - a plugin framework for adding custom staff removal algorithms


Requirements
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This toolkit has been written for the Gamera framework and requires
a working Gamera installation. See the Gamera homepage:

	http://gamera.sourceforge.net/


Documentation
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For a user's guide and a developer's guide see 'doc/html/index.html'.
For release notes and a revision history see 'CHANGES'.


Installation
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See the section "Installation" in 'doc/html/index.html' or 
'doc/src/index.txt'.


Authors
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Christoph Dalitz, <christoph dot dalitz at hsnr dot de>, 2004-2007
Thomas Karsten, 2004-2005
Michael Droettboom, 2005
Bastian Czerwinski, 2006

Please contact Christoph Dalitz for contributions to this toolkit.


License
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This toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
file LICENSE for more details.
