you need gpu acceleration if you have a strong password to crack. It goes very quickly in the 100's of billions of possibilities... https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
They've already attempted to use btcrecover... https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19982862Given that they seem to struggle with following guides/instructions, editing text files and using the command line... I don't hold much hope for this user recovering their bitcoins without (a lot) of external help...
It has all the commands and pretty pictures...