If you previously purchased a license but lost your code, you can often recover it by contacting ABBYY Customer Support with your registration data or order number. Lifecycle Status As of late 2022, ABBYY has officially ended support for FineReader 12 ABBYY Products Lifecycle Status - Help Center
There are excellent free and open-source OCR tools available. Tesseract OCR (often used with a GUI like gImageReader ) and OCRmyPDF provide high-quality results without the security risks of pirated software. If you previously purchased a license but lost
If the cost of FineReader is prohibitive, consider these legitimate free alternatives for OCR tasks: If you previously purchased a license but lost