title: What OCR options exist beyond Tesseract?
body: <p>I've used Tesseract a bit and it's results leave much to be desired.  I'm currently detecting very small images (35x15, without border, but have tried adding one with imagemagick with no ocr advantage); they range from 2 chars to 5 and are a pretty reliable font, however the characters are variable enough that simply using an image size checksum or such is not going to work.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What options exist for OCR besides sticking with Tesseract or doing a complete custom training of it?</strong>  Also, it would be VERY helpful if this were compatible with Heroku style hosting (at least where I can compile the bins and shove them over).</p>