Steam scanner

Steamindex is being held up due to the obdurate behaviour of Hewlett Packard which seems unable or unwilling to supply software which works for a Scanjet GL 2710 which is still capable of scanning to produce jpg files, but the vital OCR software, slide scanning software, etc is inaccessible. This is the second Hewlett Scanner which has ended its life prematurely.

Yet scam continues to arrive about "wonderful new products".

Are the products of other companies better?

And instructions on how to dispose of/recycle their useless machinery would be relevant.