I try http://www.shareware.com
and then search for OCR.

Maybe you can find something listed in:
http://lists.thedatalist.com/



Jack Sheet wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have a substantial quantity of tabulated data presented in JPEG format
> from scanned hard copies.
> The data is typed and "clean".
> Is there a freebie utility out there that will "OCR" this data into .xls
> format? I appreciate that it will then need careful checking, but it would
> still be a lot quicker than typing it all in.
>
> Thanks
>
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Dave Peterson