The subscription element just adds extra functionality and saves documents permanently. Without the subscription, it’s still totally functional, it just won’t save documents in the cloud more than 50 days since you last edited it.

Don’t need Connect for text recognition either

Yes (although it’s restricted to pdf format, if that matters at all to you)

I use it for this in lots of classes when the professors post notes beforehand. It works great!

If you’re following along and run out of space, you can just add pages into the pdf too

Think so, I’m not in the beta and I got it today