Hi,
I'm a senior C++ developer with more than 15 years of experience. I used ABBYY FineReader in an embedded Linux reading device for blind people, with excellent results.
My bid is based on an effort to build the rest of the application -- UI, installer, etc -- in 100 hours at my hourly fee of USD 25. If you have someone to only deal with these aspects of the solution I can create a component encapsulating the OCR from image acquisition to text output at a fraction of the cost. This component could then be used in a very simple manner in any Windows application, being capable to load an image or capture it from a camera and deal with image correction before recognizing text.
Please feel free to contact me on Skype, my id is gustavo.schirmer.
Best regards,
Gustavo Schirmer dos Santos, PMP