e-clerk OCR software

["Jonathan Wolfe" <jwolfe@MIT.EDU>]

While looking for other OCR options for Linux other than CLARA and GOCR,
I stumbled upon Vividata's OCR Shop
(http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html).  It appears to be one of the
only commercial OCR apps for Linux, and it's quite pricey.  I e-mailed
them about the educational discounts they claim to offer.

I also found an article comparing GOCR and OCR Shop
(http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0303.barr.html) which determined that
although GOCR is open-source and free, OCR Shop was clearly superior in
speed and accuracy.

If it's not completely unreasonable and they have a good command-line
interface for their software (they *claim* to), OCR Shop might be a good
option for the e-clerk.

-Jon