Results by Dave Osbourne, reported July 6, 2009.

Using Tesseract 2.03 and the instructions from

   http://littlefixes.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-source-ocr-on-mac.html

your images difficult test images converted to tiff without compression using GraphicConverter

   http://www.mattmahoney.net/ocr/

My personal system PowerBook G4 1.5 Ghz, OS X 10.4.11 PPC.  Attached are the resulting .txt files for your OCR difficulty recognition project.

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