What is the best program to use for OCR

[eric jackson]

On 02/04/2012 11:26 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?


There are several different OCR programs that are available.but there 
are also OCR services online, some are free and others charge a fee. I 
have found them to work better than the software that I have installed 
in Kubuntu.

http://www.onlineocr.net/
http://www.newocr.com/
http://www.free-online-ocr.com/

I have tried these but you can find more using Google.

Eric jackson