CONVERT SCANNED TEXT TO ASCII DOCUMENT

[mwatson at uniwa.uwa.edu.au]

Hi Netters

Do any of you magical computer brains out there know of a package 
(preferably costless as always) that can convert a scanned page
of text into real ASCII text that can be edited?  I have lost
two copies of a 600 page document and do not fancy retyping the whole 
thing.  Please help!!!

Many thanks

Mark Watson

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