It's not overly hard to trace over bitmaps in a good vector program, especially if you're a decent drafter. CorelDraw is just a CADD program, really, in some repsects. I have done much the same thing back in the day, trying to show my boss than an Amiga would be handy in our civil engineering work. I used Microstation (it's like Autocad) to trace scanned pics of maps and type over text blocks using different layers and then exported the results in DXF format so I could suck them into Dynacadd and Caligari24 in my Amiga. I also downloaded DEM files from USGS and rendered them in Vistapro. I never got any good use out of the ocr packages, though. Even the good ones back then sucked hugely.
