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 n...@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:23 AM, MJ Ray <m...@phonecoop.coop> wrote: > Alberto Accomazzi <aaccoma...@cfa.harvard.edu> 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 >