Tesseract is certainly further along than its OSS peers but it's not even close to commercial packages. The most promising OSS project I've seen is another Goog

Tesseract is certainly further along than its OSS peers but it's not even close to commercial packages. The most promising OSS project I've seen is another Google-sponsored effort, OCRopus http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ but it is very much ongoing research.