Lector can help you scan your papers and create text documents. It lets you select areas on which you want to use OCR. Then you can run tesseract-ocr simply by clicking a button. The resulting text can be proofread, formatted, and edited directly in Lector.
tesseract-ocr is an OCR engine originally developed by Hewlett Packard and now sponsored by Google. It is highly accurate and will read a binary, gray, or color image and output text.
Where I can donwload "Public Domain" version (see definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain)? On home page there is just "free demo version" or offer to purchase pro...