OCR to read say 'J2002' from top right of a scanned image

Hi, Keep reading as there is a gift for you.
My user has mentioned a few times, his desire that my pgm be able to read a written number from the top of scanned images.
Currently an employee would have to view the scanned image(that functionality is working), and then type in the number.
This seem like a job for OCR logic embedded into my pgm.
At some stage I will be searching for help on that. (And I guess I would be 'no orphan').
I am now working on more serious issues (my posts on Access slow on LAN), and am getting some kind suggestions. So Thats where i should be focussing at this moment.
However I came across something that may be of interest to others, so I thought I might get the ball rolling on this.
The gift is from SimpleOCR.
They have a product which costs more than $1,000.
I'm not sure if it would be suitable for the selective use I have in mind (read number from top right of a scanned image). If it did the job, then I am pretty sure the user would buy it.
If any of you would like to use their product for non-commercial purposes, then it is absolutely free
Here is the link -
http://www.simpleocr.com/Info.asp

If anyone tries it, perhaps they could provide some feedback as to whether it could be embedded into my pgm to do that selective read that I desire ?

Also any other solutions would be appreciated.