Cavuoto, James. OCR comes of age recent advances in optical-character recognition stratify the scanner market. Computer Graphics World Jan 1989 v12 n1 p83(2). Optical Character Recognition OCR Product-Comparisons High-end and middle-level categories of optical character recognition (OCR) software, priced below $3,000, are now available, as well as traditional products that are limited to reading monospaced typewriter output. At the high-end are 'page recognition' packages, such as OmniPage and TrueScan. These products facilitate archiving of printed material.