On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se> wrote:

Both the Internet Archive
and Wikisource volunteers use a cheap, commercial
version of ABBYY Finereader and we have no
dialogue with that company. And why should they
listen to us? We have no more money to provide,
but Google does pay its OCR software developers.

I actually had a contact with a ABBYY Finereader sales manager,

but after a short conversation in this list I didn't follow up,

as the community was not enthusiastic about that, and I was worried about the

amount of money they could request us.

Aubrey