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ABBYY Finereader Sprint comes with Epson scanners. I have both versions 6.0 and 9.0. For the most part they work very well. I also have version 4 of the pro version. It was on the cover disc of PC Plus many years ago. It still works well but I find the Sprint versions more convenient.
I convert the PDF to images, PFill works well in Windows and is free. Pdftopng works in Linux and Windows but is a command line program. I use Scantailor to clean up the images and then OCR with Abbyy. From OCR to rtf into LibreOffice for more cleanup. From there to htm and then I do all my real work with Notepad++. Abbyy and Notepad++ are the ONLY reason that I still use Windows. XP continues to work just fine for all that I need it for.
This a cheap and very effective way to work. The only expense was the scanner which I had to buy anyway.
I was going to buy the pro version Abby a while back but the went for an activation based system so I decided to continue with Sprint. With the exception of Windows, I will not buy any product that requires activation.
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