Edit: just tried Google's, and it had one mistake for that entire file. That's pretty impressive.
I spent a weekend tying Tesseract together with Tekkotsu (the amazing open framework for the Sony AIBO) in an attempt to teach my robot dog to read. The eventual goal being to hook up the output of OCR --> Text To Speech (TTS) and have him read to me.
Alas, the low resolution of the camera was an insurmountable problem. Poor Aibo needed 40-point fonts and I practically had to rub his nose in the book. Not exactly the user experience I was aiming for.
Never got around to the TTS part.
I did something like that a few years ago when making an Eve-Online UI scraper.
Upscaled image: https://imgur.com/a/4IQA7
Result on demo page: http://imgur.com/a/A0v5C
The hammerman Tikes flsosushsath: Greetings. My name is Tikes Leafsilk.
You: Rh. hello. I'm Stasbo Murderknower the Craterous Trance of Fins. Don't travel alone at night. or the bogeyman will get you.
You: Tell me about this hall.
Tikes: This is The flccidental Ualley. In 123, Stasho Steamdances ruled from The flccidental Ualley of The Council of Cobras in Ueilapes.
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