Why does the Franchise Openness Project charge a small fee for PDF documents and individual pages that are watermark free and text searchable?
All documents contained within the archive of the Franchise Openness Project are accessible and downloadable free of charge. However, some ‘power’ users require watermark free versions of these files or demand the ability to search for text within documents after downloading. Since many archived documents can sometimes be hundreds of pages in size, the server overhead and bandwidth required to create these versions can be substantial and offering these variables costs money. Considering that previously these same documents cost hundreds of dollars to download and could tie up your computer for long periods while processing OCR, many users actually welcome the low fee and time savings provided by the Franchise Openness Project power and capabilities. Finally, the Project’s archive, storage, and web maintenance is made possible our founding benefactors and friends of franchise openness – whose donations will continue to provide unlimited search and downloads available at no charge, to ev
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