Why This Is Well Worth Paying for What Was Once Free

My Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner used to have a free, bundled program that served my OCR needs for taking unmodifiable pdf law form files and converting them to Word where I then modify them in my law practice. I spent hours recently trying to reinstall scanner drivers and utilities, and then researching the internet to restore this functionality lost along the way probably to OS “upgrades”. The quote below is from the software manufacturer who blames the upgrades but is willing to sell me software for about $119.99 to replace the functionality of what once was bundled/free. I then spent too much time at the Apple Store looking at diametrically opposed reviews of several products before I took somewhat of a gamble on this product. To my relief this new software performed the functionality I need and is more user-friendly than my old free program at 1/6th of the price of the old software’s new “pro” version.

"Thank you for contacting ABBYY USA technical support. I apologize for the issues you’re experiencing. Unfortunately, FineReader Sprint is a free bundled version of the software which is only available on the original installation CD that it came on. And FineReader 5.0 Sprint in particular, isn’t supported on El Capitan, so if you located the CD it would not work. If you’d like, you could purchase our standalone software for the Mac, FineReader Pro for Mac."

RobertBurnsOB about PDF Converter with OCR, v3.2.0