"I use ABBYY FineReader and that too works like a treat"
I quite agree with you, from the Trial version 6, and the free Version 4 or 5 I have been using.
After disscusions with the guy's I work with, many of us didn't know this was included and so several went and got copy's of ABBYY Fine Reader. But If you have Office XP, you already have an integrated OCR Programme.