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Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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gumby wrote: post #10
pmiller2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean "required"? Like, they wouldn't accept a clean, non-scanned copy? That's absurd.

Banks that need monthly financials to assure regulators that they are servicing their loans are also required to justify the documents to the regulator. If you just autogenerated it perhaps they’re wrong or falsified. While if you have to take out a pen and sign them that won’t happen. Yes, absurd.

That's beyond absurd. The content of the document is what determines whether it's falsified or not, and you can inspect the content for inconsistencies on a generated PDF far more easily than a scanned one.

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by pmiller2 »

baicunko wrote: post #7
pmiller2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean "required"? Like, they wouldn't accept a clean, non-scanned copy? That's absurd.

I usually sign documents on my iPad but in this case they told me the signature had to be from a pen. COVID and everything means I don't have a printer nor a scanner at home so I developed this to "scan my iPad signed documents" worked like a charm!

As a technological toy, I think this sort of thing is cool. In fact, you can do it in LaTeX pretty easily: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca...

It's interesting that the problem they had was with the signature. You can very easily make a handwritten signature on an iPad. I don't see how there's any practical way to tell the difference between a high-quality, handwritten signature done on an iPad with either a finger or an Apple Pencil and a scanned signature done with a pen.

Are you sure that's not just some excuse they gave you?

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by giarc »

dkonofalski wrote: post #13

I can't believe that I'm saying this but this is soooo needed. It's ridiculous to me how many organizations still require hand-signed copies as if that is somehow a deterrent to anything.

I have to submit my work hours in an excel sheet. There is a section for "Signature". I didn't put anything since it's an electronic file and my email sending the file should serve as a "signature". However, my manager insisted I use a cursive font to type out my signature.
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