good free OCR with GUI for correcting errors (for Windows)

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Published on 2010-05-15T23:34:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 1:30 UTC
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I've used SimpleOCR, which has a nice GUI for correcting errors. Unfortunately it makes a lot of errors! (and suffers other bugs and limitations)

On the other hand Tesseract is more accurate but has no GUI at all.

Is there a free OCR program for Windows which has a nice GUI and a low error rate? I want it to highlight suspect words (by OCR uncertainty, not just spell checking) and show the original (bitmap) word while I'm editing the OCRed word similar to what SimpleOCR does:

SimpleOCR screenshot showing GUI for correcting errors

Open-source would be best, followed by freeware, then trial / crippleware a long way behind.

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