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Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by baicunko »

lewiscollard wrote: post #84
baicunko wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks! took me quite a while to prepare as I read a bunch of other servers failing catastrophically when posting on HN due to the sheer amount of traffic. I will start working on your comments throughout the weekend, I agree with most of them. Would love for you to follow the github page for any other comments you may have, all are appreciated

It was while reading my above comments that I realised I should have shut up and contributed code instead, because that's definitely more helpful than being critical on HN, especially to a newcomer & their first project. So that is what I've decided to do! First step: a PR coming out of getting this up and running on my Ubuntu box. :)

No worries I think it's great that everyone is voicing their comments. Also, thanks for the PR, will check them later once everything is more normal!

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by baicunko »

pingec wrote: post #59

Is this project different in some way from many already existing solutions that do the same? I like that it is open source and in theory possible to self host since I really wouldn't want to upload my documents anywhere. I would really like to know if a similar solution exists that is very easy to run locally or if it runs in the browser it does everything client-side?

I like to think this solution is way more friendly than using terminal for 99% of people. What others have suggested is to develop a stand-alone app for more private documents which can't be sent somewhere else

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by renewiltord »

eob wrote: post #114
renewiltord wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use these to 'accidentally' upload marketing collateral. Got some clickbacks through unique UTMs so I know it works.

Any chance you could elaborate a bit? This sounds interesting but I'm not in the know enough to read between the lines. You were trying to see if someone was sniffing the documents uploaded (and confirmed they were).... or you realized you could use them as a vector though which others would post your materials on websites elsewhere (and they did)?

The latter. It goes all over the place, so that's cool.

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by renewiltord »

jaflo wrote: post #115
renewiltord wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use these to 'accidentally' upload marketing collateral. Got some clickbacks through unique UTMs so I know it works.

Were these PDFs? I wonder if they were human or automated clicks. Also do you recall which website?

In my case, for other reasons I had to make it a short bit.ly link that wasn't a hyperlink. Someone actually had to type it in to get there!

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by sabertoothed »

camillomiller wrote: post #146

I live in Germany and I never had anyone telling me that a PDF signed digitally wasn’t enough, especially if they expect you to e-mail it back to them. Is this a US problem?

Just had it in Germany with an application to a bank (DKB). Digitally signed one was rejected. I need to print on paper, sign and then scan. Signing the PDF in an iPad app was not OK.

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by cerved »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #113
baicunko wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In summary you could say yes but I wanted to simplify the process for the not-so-techy person. I will work on a Standalone app that simplifies the command and shows a nice GUI for more private documents

I hope you don’t take the comment you’re responding to as anything negative. I’m a software engineer and I would use this myself rather than try and remember some arcane command line utility.

A software engineer!?? On HN!?? IMPOSSIBLE

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by camillomiller »

sabertoothed wrote: post #147
camillomiller wrote: post #146

I live in Germany and I never had anyone telling me that a PDF signed digitally wasn’t enough, especially if they expect you to e-mail it back to them. Is this a US problem?

Just had it in Germany with an application to a bank (DKB). Digitally signed one was rejected. I need to print on paper, sign and then scan. Signing the PDF in an iPad app was not OK.

Oh, interesting, then I guess I was just lucky. DKB is indeed well known for being quite old-school. I'll add that in my case the need for a printed and hand-signed copy was always connected to shipping the document or faxing it. Never through email.
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