Using with images
I have an occassional need for extracting small snippets of text from various sources, for "fair use" applications. Even though it sounds like this is intended for PDFs, the application worked well using tiff images. Worked smoothly, easily---just dragged the image to the drop box, and out popped a usable OCR text. Had a few misses in terms of text recognition (two or three out of a page worth of text. But the source document was relatively recent, with decent image quality. Not sure how well it would do with something from the 19th century.
Quolla6 about PDF OCR X Community Edition