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. > >--- > >Nicole C. Engard >Open Source Evangelist, LibLime >(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 >[log in to unmask] >AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard > >http://liblime.com >http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ > > > >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, > > -- > > MJ Ray (slef) > > Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small > > worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ > > (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 > >