The following works with documents that have already been scanned - xsane is what I use to scan and getting my scanner to scan was a real ordeal... But assuming that you are succesfully scanning this OCR program is for the cost - THE BEST...

I found and am running a great OCR program - Much better recognition than anything in kooka or xsane and the other OCR programs I tryed - Its a windows binary that runs well in wine - All it does is the OCR so you have to scan your documents first and save in .tif .tiff bmp. or .gif - After you scan the documents you can find the program in your .wine file, open it and single or batch the scans for OCR - It does a great job even at 400 Mhz with 128 meg - It might not work trying to run on some slower computers but the programing is very clean and simple AND ACCURATE...

Its a windows freeware program found here... "TOCR"

http://www.transym.com

This guy deserves a lot of credit for making a clean enough program that it can run well in our linux systems...

Currently running in KANOTIX 3.9 HD install - Also works in KANOTIX Lite HD Install - Feather Linux HD install - And of course BIG DADDY KNOPPIX 3.9

Notes: I down loaded the zip file and expanded it - Then ran the install under wine - Then found the viewer.exe at file:/home/yourname/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/transym/ - On opening the program I find the file I want to OCR - I use xsane to scan my documents and I save them in non compressed .tif files - On one of the computers I set this program up on I had to reopen the scans in gimp then resave them due to some auto file compression problem with the scanner - gimp could open the files but tocr could not untill I opened them in gimp and resaved them.

There is another OCR program I have run in wine called "SimpleOCR" it has more bells to it but just does not run as good an OCR as TOCR.

Let me know what you all think - OUT