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Posted by overflowy 4 days ago

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)(github.com)
I made this because the online "make my PDF look scanned" tools want you to upload your file to their servers, which feels sketchy at best. Also, I wasn't happy with the output they produce, I wanted something that looks realistic.
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ashton314 4 days ago|
This needs a flag to insert random blank pages
molybd3num 4 days ago|
or make a random page the wrong orientation
hk1337 3 days ago||
Basically, you’re converting it to an image-based PDF so they cannot just scrape the text off of it but would have to use OCR?
colesantiago 4 days ago||
Thank you for making this a free tool.

There are too many PDF tools that are unnecessarily paywalled, or have a paid tier that don't make any sense.

We need more tools from paid ones that should be completely free and OSS.

molybd3num 4 days ago|
check out ilovepdf (https://www.ilovepdf.com/) not OSS (?) but it's free
normie3000 4 days ago||
Do you have to upload your documents to their server?
molybd3num 2 days ago||
ooh yeah you have to, forgot about that
Cbagenal 4 days ago||
cool idea, looks sooo realistic
costabrosky 4 days ago||
Useful tool
blopp99 4 days ago||
Niceee
huflungdung 4 days ago||
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booleandilemma 4 days ago||
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Rajikshank 4 days ago|
Great idea