OCR no longer working on an HP C5580 printer after installing OSX 10.6.1

I purchased an HP C5580 printer when I installed OSX 10.6. The scanner / OCR did not work. I called HP. The tech had me download the v10.3 driver and walked me thru the OCR set-up. The OCR worked (actually quite well).
When I updated to OSX 10.6.1 the OCR became non-existent. I called HP. The tech indicated that OCR NEVER worked in Snow Leopard and to purchase Readiris for $99. I said it worked just fine in OSX 10.6 – he said I was mistaken.
BTW, the tech indicated that there would be no updated HP software to allow OCR for the C5500 series printers for Snow Leopard.
I followed the post by Richard Cambell4 (9-15-09) to reload the HP v10.3 software and reload Apple’s HP update. I did that. The problem is that Richard’s update included a scan icon for the dock to toggle the scan/OCR – my update from Apple (11-3-09) only has an HP Device icon for the dock that does NOT include a scan/OCR toggle.
I checked for a free Mac OCR on Goggle and found zip – except for a command line program that I prefer not to use.
Am I missing something on the update? Or, does anyone have a fix for this problem (without going back to OSX 10.6.0 or buying the IRIS $99 OCR software)?
Appreciate any help. Thanks.

bschmidt86,
There is no need to buy anything. Simply download the full Snow Leopard compatible solution from [HP.com|http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=o j-74785-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=219&product=3575276]. If your device originally came with OCR capabilities, they will be exposed by HP Scan. Simply do a Document scan, and the save box will give you options with multiple OCR options in it (PDF, txt, html, rtf).
Do yourself a favor though, and before you install the software, run the HP Uninstaller (located in /Applications/Hewlett-Packard) and when the Uninstall screen comes up, press and hold Shift-Command-Control-Option while clicking on Uninstall. Say yes to the scary message. Restart the machine for good measure, and then install the solution mentioned above.
Launch HP Scan, and enjoy!
Just trying to help.
Andrew

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