Free OCR is an Optical Character Recognition program that includes the free Tesseract V2 engine. It also includes a Windows installer, and its control is really simple and it has support for Tiff, fax documents and many other formats.
FreeOCR is a completely free application and has support for TWAIN document scanners and for multipage TIFF documents. It is a very good option for character recognition, without complications. For those who don`t know, the optical character recognition process works to transform a paper document (usually via a scanner) to a digital text you can process in the PC.