Free Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. They give it away in order to promote their OCR API. - http://www.simpleocr.com/
Web based! Wow, I had great success using http://www.newocr.com/ to process a picture of a document. 12 megapixel camera in "text" optimized mode, it came out perfect. 100x better than the stuff from 10 years ago.
Also: https://www.onlineocr.net/
Update:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/171244
Google has released ocropus to the world as a free OCR library. Cool. I recall wanting free OCR for some concept or another... too bad I don't recall what that was!
Update:
Someone took the Google code to create a Free OCR program. Nice.
http://www.softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm
Google code:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
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