I am using Scansoft Omnipage 12 Office version to convert scanned images of 
documents and make them available for searching, with quite good results. It 
gives me about 95% accuracy.
The software is quite expensive (list $499) but you can buy it a lot cheaper 
on Ebay.

Carlos

>From: "Robert Keith" <Robert@Technolords.com>
>Reply-To: Robert@Technolords.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list <swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: [SWISH-E] OCR filter available?
>Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:10:28 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Does anyone know of OCR software appropriate for swish-e filtering?  I have
>a lot of PDF files that are scanned images of text documents; it would be
>nice to search these documents.
>
>Robert Keith
>

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