OCR .NET Recommended

hi i have just tried a component for OCR in .NET and the results were pretty inacurrate. has anybody else been down this route before? can you please recommend a path for me to save me the time of evaluating lots of components that produce not satisfactory results.

any recommendations much appreciated. i dont mind buying in or coding myself. whatever works best and is cost effective.

thanks

From stackoverflow

• Have you tried the MODI component which comes with Office? Check this article at CodeProject.

• We have used Abby Fine Reader SDK in our project. It comes with a COM object which you can use in your .Net application. Success of the engine is good enough.

  0xA3 : Same for us. The API has some pitfalls, but the results are really amazing.

• ABBYY's component is pretty expensive. I've evaluated Pegasus ImagXpress and Atalasoft DotImage and while I've found DotImage more accurate on full-page OCR, certain small portions of text which was difficult to recognize were better read by ImagXpress. I suggest you try demo versions of both and see what fits best for your needs.