Fork
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This is a public fork of the original musicstaves source code by Dalitz et al. on sourceforge.
We have added some fixes for newer python 2.7. 

Follow these url or information below for the original distribution:
http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/addons/musicstaves/
https://sourceforge.net/p/music-staves/


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.