Slashdot mentioned that Google had release a free (depending on it's dependence on the included aspirin package, and the status of that) OCR program. I tried it out on an image that clara and gocr had done, it bailed on me. I just ran one of the gocr test images with it and it did OK (although it had real problems with numbers, and seemed to split one letter into multiple letters, e.g. W -> VV). It is written to C++. I'm glad they released it, although I don't think it is the complete free OCR magic bullet yet, more work needs to be done on it, or it needs to borrow (or be borrowed) concepts and code from other OCR programs etc. I want to contribute to free OCR but I don't have the time so much.