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AFAIK, best OCR available under open source licenses is <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/">Tesseract</a> which might fit your bill if you wrap if with some perl code (it's a simple command-line utility).
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<em>Update:</em> fixed URI to point to googlecode where current project page is. There is also <a href="http://tesseract-ocr.repairfaq.org/">great documentation site</a> if you want to know more.
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