[MustardJeep]

I'll second what JSWolf said, Omnibook is one of the best out there.

Bought mine a while back for the single purpose of scanning in books so I'd quit looking like I was lugging a small library around with me. The abbyfine software that came with my scanner does a decent job on the OCR. About the only time that it has trouble with text is when something is at a small font size while also in bold and italic at the same time.

Hardbacks with the omnipage are absurdly easy; I really needed a book available once. Managed it in 2.5 hours for around 400 pages. Not including the OCR time as abbyfines batch system boged down when I handed it that many pages at once.

Paperbacks are a different story, it all depends on the binding side margin. Many trade paperbacks still have to be held very flat or the curve of the page going into the binding will still obscure the last character on each line. The larger paperbacks generally however for me have been as easy as most hardbacks.

Long and short of it, your OCR experiance will depend on the quality of your scanner.