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Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by baicunko »

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.

Not at all, I'm actually quite happy with all the comments, ideas and feedback I've received on this, really encourages me to keep improving the project

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by dkersten »

biryani_chicken wrote: post #95
baicunko wrote: post #2

I recently came across a couple of institutions which required me to print, sign and send back a couple of documents. COVID and all of that means I don't have a printer at home. I made this website by inspiration from other posts here and now it's free to use! Code is open source so feel free to comment any new ideas or things you would like includede!

I had the same issue recently. What I did is sign a blank paper, take a pic of it with my phone and copypasted the text over the blank page with The Gimp.

I used to do that, but nowadays I tend to sign things on iPad. When using the stylus it looks exactly like it was hand signed (even without the stylus, I can just zoom way in and make it look kinda hand signed). The pdf is of course not scanned looking, but nobody had complained yet.

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by [deleted] »

biryani_chicken wrote: post #95
baicunko wrote: post #2

I recently came across a couple of institutions which required me to print, sign and send back a couple of documents. COVID and all of that means I don't have a printer at home. I made this website by inspiration from other posts here and now it's free to use! Code is open source so feel free to comment any new ideas or things you would like includede!

I had the same issue recently. What I did is sign a blank paper, take a pic of it with my phone and copypasted the text over the blank page with The Gimp.

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Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by dantondwa »

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?

I live in Italy and ING Direct did this to me. The same happened in Belgium with KBC, so I think some banks might still be doing this here, unfortunately!

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by leethargo »

baicunko wrote: post #2

I recently came across a couple of institutions which required me to print, sign and send back a couple of documents. COVID and all of that means I don't have a printer at home. I made this website by inspiration from other posts here and now it's free to use! Code is open source so feel free to comment any new ideas or things you would like includede!

Suggestion: For multi-page documents, it would be nice to use slightly different rotation parameters for each page.

Re: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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Post by gumby »

kube-system wrote: post #124
gumby wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this case I think it’s the business auditors (pwc etc) assuring “best practices” that will satisfy the regulators and thus the regulatory auditors (Federal reserve, treasury, FDIC...). Banks are themselves full of absurd practices but in this one tiny area I’d give them a pass.

Yes, this is a lawyers version of a patch to fix bugs that programmers sometimes introduce. A couple of years ago I used DocuSign on a contract, and the PDF “copy” I was emailed as a receipt had different terms than the one I actually signed. Luckily I did not object to the discrepancy, but I would have wondered what would have actually happened if I did.

What?? Is this public? Have others reported this happening? That would be a huge issue!
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