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I am looking for an affordable OCR app. By affordable, I mean less, 
preferably much less, than $100. As I don't need to read more than
a few pages per week, I cannot justify the expense of the name brand
products. Conversely, speed is not really an issue. It doesn't much
matter if the thing is dead slow as long as it's cheap, reasonably
accurate, and reasonably flexible. I guess I am most likely looking
for some sort of shareware/freeware. 

I want to use it to read faxes, so there is no issue about hardware
support or the like. I would like it to be able to recognise italic,
bold, underline and serif characteristics, recognise line drawings,
correct misspellings, translate into English, ... .

If there is no such beast, I would contemplate writing one myself, 
*IF* someone can point me to some really good character recognition
code in C, Pascal, or Ada. I think I can handle the code necessary
to pick out the characters and feed them to the recogniser, but I
generally avoid doing AI (I just don't have the right kind of
personality) so I don't want to do the actual recogniser itself.
If I actually do write this thing I would of course make it avaliable
as shareware or freeware.

I don't have e-mail or ftp access ( :( ) so you'll have to post your
response.

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