These suggestions came largely from a poll of volunteers in June, 2002. The programs listed are a summary of the programs we actually use. There are many other programs out there that can do the same jobs, so don’t limit your search just to these. 1. OCR Abbyy OmniPage TextBridge These are the three main commercial packages that volunteers bought specifically for the purpose. In a few cases, people had got older versions of these bundled with their scanners. Clara OCR Gocr These are Free Software packages. Some people who responded to the survey had tried them, but nobody had actually used them to produce a text. DocMorph — a free, web-based OCR This one is interesting–you can just submit your image through a web page, and the service will return OCRed text. However, the process of submission, waiting for your te