OCR librarys

[Timothy Smith]

i'm looking for ocr librarys with reasonably free licensing and the 
ablity to use python with them. c library's that i can call from python 
are acceptable.
so far all i have run into is voodoo and wild claims. i've tried gocr, 
and it wasn't very impressive. i'm like to be able to ocr handwriting 
but it's not a major requirment. anyone with any pointers or idea's i'm 
all ears. i'd really not like to have to use somthing like imagemagick 
and start from scratch.