Well you should evaluate ABBYY to see how well it performs as it is one of most widely used commercial applications for OCR. I used it for years to scan our ba

Well you should evaluate ABBYY to see how well it performs as it is one of most widely used commercial applications for OCR. I used it for years to scan our bank statements (before our bank could export data). It was the only thing I ever found that handled tabular data properly.