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Originally Posted by huari
Microsoft One Note OCR > OCR PDF from an industrial multipurpose office copier > cheap OCR Abby Finereader lite that came with a desktop Epson Scanner
I also looked into tesseract and some of the other open source stuff.
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I had always, in the past, when I tried dabbling with OCRing something used some version or other of Omnipage Pro (dating back deep into the single digit versions) and never considered it "good enough for prime time." Then recently I had a mediocre scanned PDF of a somewhat expensive OOP book that I wanted to OCR so that I could read it on my Reader. The Abbyy lite version that came with my most recent scanner was crippled so as to not do PDFs. So I tried Omnipage Pro 17, which did a lousy job. Then I tried Abbyy 9 full version, and dayn-- almost perfect job before any tweaking from me. I had always thought that Omnipage was the top OCR software, but Abby blows it out of the water. So good that now I'm itching to get a good book scanner and digitize some of my hard or expensive to replace books.
This looks like the closest I'll get to an inexpensive book scanner:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...7BBTkwCjCECjCE
http://www.plustek.com/product/book_compare.asp