September 2006
SourceForge.net: Tesseract OCR
(via)A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
January 2006
SimpleOCR - the only royalty free OCR engine!
by 4 others (via)Use SimpleOCR to add accurate character recognition capabilities to your custom software without the complexity and expense of runtime licensing. The SimpleOCR freeware demonstrates the power of our engine and is the only OCR application that is completely free.
1
(2 marks)