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FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by heydonovan »

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's?

Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn't have one. The one at the Office Depot was broken. I ended up driving 30 miles to a friends house to use theirs, which required driver upgrades since nobody had used it in a year. I don't understand the point of jumping through all these hoops.

I feel the same with credit card signatures, completely useless and has never once helped me with identity theft or fraudulent transactions. Now I just draw a horizontal line or smiley face.

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by woofyman »

tootie wrote: post #36
tombert wrote: post #32

I really hate dealing with my printer (or any printer for that matter), so I make pretty liberal use of my drawing tablet at this point. I import the PDF into Krita, use the ballpoint pen brush, and sign. I export to PNG, then use an imagemagick script to rotate it some random number between 1-3 degrees, and add noise onto it to look like a scan. It's a pain, but it's still less annoying than dealing with a printer.

You can actually sign a PDF this way just using Preview on MacOS.

Also iOS

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by detritus »

heydonovan wrote: post #71

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's? Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn'…

If you have a basic handle on a GUI Bitmap editor such as Photoshop or GIMP, and you have a hi-resolution phone, you can just take a photo of the sheet as parallel as you can manage and then create a document that is the same dimensions and then use the warp tool to fit the likely skewed photograph to the exact digital document.

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by ahoka »

heydonovan wrote: post #71

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's? Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn'…

Just take a photo next time, you can use Office Lens or Apple Notes.

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by space_ghost »

heydonovan wrote: post #71

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's? Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn'…

Dropbox's mobile app includes a document scanning feature that seems to work well.

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by [deleted] »

heydonovan wrote: post #71

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's? Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn'…

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Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by DarylZero »

glitchinc wrote: post #47
kristofferR wrote: post #22

What's the use case of this? Signing documents with visual signatures instead of cryptographic ones is already extremely archaic, but having to make them look like being signed by hand is absurdly so.

The primary use case is addressing situations where wet ink signatures are required by a party to a transaction without having to print, sign, and scan a document. Yes, it is an odd combination of legacy (sometimes regulatory) requirements and modern technology, but there are numerous situations where only wet ink signatures are accepted, and “digital signatures” are not accepted—even though the document is stored in…

But it's not a "wet ink signature," it's a PDF. The "wet ink signature" is on a piece of paper that never gets delivered.

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by [deleted] »

heydonovan wrote: post #71

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's? Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn'…

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Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by martneumann »

heydonovan wrote: post #71

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's? Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn'…

>Are we stuck in the 90's?

Since we accept signatures as proof of identity, we are really stuck in 3,000 B.C. [0]

[0] https://blog.thegrizzlylabs.com/2020/11/history-of-signature...

Re: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

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Post by benjamir »

grst wrote: post #35

Having moved from Germany to Austria I was pleasantly surprised that they have a functional national ID system that you can use to sign PDFs with a qualified electronic signature. Within Austria, they have been accepted everywhere so far. https://www.handy-signatur.at/hs2/#!sign/single When I tried sending such a document to a German insurance company, they refused to accept it. I ended up faxing the document :/

At least in the federal state of Hesse a fax isn't considered safe: (German) https://www.heise.de/news/Datenschutzbeauftragter-Gaengiges-...
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