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-# Cress
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+# Cress
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+Cress is a browser-based MEI mapping tool. It allows users to map an image of a musical glyph to its corresponding MEI encoding in neume notation. The MEI output is validated against MEI version 5.0.
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+# Cress for Developers
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+Please refer to the [Cress Wiki](https://github.com/DDMAL/Cress/wiki) for instructions on development and deployment using GitHub Pages.
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