Totally agree with your sentiments. I also had XP before but the company upgraded my PC to W7. The 8.3 version was more versatile and very easy to use especially if you want to scan a lot of PDF documents and would like to have all the pages in the same sizes. Previous version only requires setting the output size once. The new "UPGRADED" software made things difficult and more tedious! Have to set / crop the each page to desired size. Software is inefficient and time consuming as well as does not scan documents perfectly (I always get this bluish / green tints on my scans unlike the 8.3!).
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