Reversions

I've taken a large leap to the previous century, unfortunately. I have numerous plays on paper that I had on disk which got corrupted. So, I tried to scan and each time the scanner has stopped working before I can finish. I got Adobe Export PDF and the export to word so mangled the text that it was unusable. This is over 3 afternoons I've been trying to scan and file one 70-page play. (I hope you all don't mind my venting). So, I tried combining the partial files and found that I have to buy another program from Adobe. Needless to say, I'm loath to try that company again.
This afternoon I tried to get through scanning the whole 70 pages again and got to p. 67 when the scanner stopped working (after 2.5 hours) and erased the complete file.
God, I love technology!