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If you get yourself on the email list for readiris or serif, versions of paid ocr programs are offered at what seem to me reasonable prices.
As has been noted, there are no free alternatives that do 1/10 of what the commercial ones do. This may be because there is real money in doing document conversion, so no one is willing to do for free what customers are willing to pay for. Also support for these programs must be a headache. At best OCR produces a fair number of errors in the output unless the input is perfect and simple. The complaints about this may be a real deterrent to a software author.
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