russian ocr

[Mark Clarence Konecny]

Dear seelangovtsy,
I am in the process of buying a scanner for my macintosh. My problem is this:
I have a lot of Russian language documents that I would like to scan and it
would be infinitely preferable to have these docs as text files as opposed to
image files. Is there a good optical character recognition program for
Russian that is not expensive and reliable? I know that ocr programs make a
lot of mistakes; will conversion to text be a waste of time in the long run
because of the proofreading involved? Any and all advice will be appreciated.
Thanx, Mark.