Everyone's answer "might" be different, (and keeping that in mind),
I have a several scanners and sometimes the free OCR that came
with "some" (Visioneer) was far superior to the paid upgrades of the
same OCR program  --- WHEN scanning very simple stuff...

Part of that is dependant on exactly what you are scanning.
The type face/(font), size, resolution, and if you want to retain formatting, etc.

                                 YMMV,            Rick Glazier

From: "Barry Marx" <[log in to unmask]>
> I've looked back through the list archives and seen that a number of people
> have raved about the pro- versions of various ocr programs.  What I'm
> wondering is whether the lite versions that come bundled with scanners do a
> decent job.  I don't need to have near perfect accuracy, and can deal with a
> little manual editing if it's not too much.

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