The Kadmos OCR/ICR (handwriting) recognition engine has support for multiple languages. It covers all Latin languages and others, including Cyrillic. Application interfaces are available for C, C++, VB, .NET, Delphi, and Java upon request. It has isolated character recognition (REC), isolated line recognition (REL), and paragraph / multi-line recognition (REP) modules.
A ready-to-use architecture to ease the creation of MDI-style applications in Java.