Abbyy Finereader and Nuance Omnipage are the two leading commercial OCR 
products. Both can achieve 98% + character accuracy on most book-like 
material scanned at 300 dpi.

- Randy Stern (who formerly worked in the OCR industry)

At 07:37 AM 2/3/2009 -0500, Nicole Engard wrote:
>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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