I'm with Christian - I loved Abbyy FineReader when I used it at both
my previous libraries.  It's very accurate and it's affordable if
you're not using it for mass digitization :) but we never got the
server contract because like Christian said - it is quite expensive.

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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:23 AM, MJ Ray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alberto Accomazzi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> [...] I know about OCRopus but I have a feeling that
>> commercial products still have a significant edge over public domain
>> packages. [...]
>
> OCRopus is released under the Apache License 2.0, which allows
> commercial development.  It is not a public domain package.
> Feel free to use it as a commercial product without fear.
>
> Hope that helps,
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