HAven't tried it yet, but in searching around, I have located a program called Sharpeye V1. It takes a scanned image of sheet music, and creates a MIDI file out of it.

Visiv Releases "SharpEye Music Reader": Converts Scanned Sheet Music to MIDI

SCOTLAND, UK--Visiv (http://www.visiv.co.uk) is pleased to announce the release of SharpEye Music Reader, an accurate and low cost music OCR program.

Description

SharpEye Music Reader can convert a scanned image of printed sheet Music (a TIFF or BMP file) into a MIDI file. It incorporates a music editor which displays the converted image in standard music notation, And where you can correct errors before saving as a MIDI file. The music editor is linked to a display of the scanned image to facilitate the checking and correcting. It can deal with multiple staves per system, multiple voices per stave, and recognizes most common musical symbols including lyrics.

Availability and System Requirements

SharpEye Music Reader requires W95/W98/NT4, 16Mb RAM and a scanner. It is shareware with a registration fee of $50 or o30. A fully working evaluation version can be downloaded from . This is a self-extracting file of size 1.1Mb.