What is the best program to use for OCR

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On Saturday, February 04, 2012 09:26:46 PM John Batt wrote:
> I have a book that I wrote 9 yrs ago and the original copy has been lost
> in numerous hard drives over the years.  I have a hard copy left and
> don't really feel like retyping all 100 pages.  What is the best
> software to use for OCR to get it into Libre/Open Office?

I have heard good things for tesseract-ocr, but gocr is also good.