Thank you for the prompt replies. 

Call me cheap or unable to navigate the political/fiscal landscape, but I don't see myself subscribing to a service. Instead I see putting a wrapper around Tesseract, but alas, the wrappers are written in languages that I don't know. [1] Hmmm… On the Perl side, I am having problems installing Image::OCR::Tesseract. 

[1] Wrappers - http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/AddOns

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Eric "Still Cogitating" Morgan