OCR from a .JPG?

[stockhausen]

Does anyone hav a recommendation for free or cheap(ish) OCR software to scan a document and convert the text?

I used something many years ago with a scanner but the scanner and the software have long since gone

 

[stockhausen]

I have found something that seems to meet my needs - FreeOCR - http://www.paperfile.net/
As it happens, I scanned the documents into a .PDF and that works pretty well.
I took the "read" plain text and copied it into LibreOffice Writer.
That allowed me to correct any faulty conversions which were typically highlighted by the spellchecker.
Good result all round