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> you can do it in LaTeX pretty easily: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-scanned-paper https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/sim
by miles 6y ago
> you can do it in LaTeX pretty easily: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-scanned-paper https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca...
Ironically, despite being hosted on tex.stackexchange.com, all of the answers use ImageMagick, Photoshop, or Windows 10/Adobe Acrobat.
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoInterestingly, there are LaTeX packages for coffee stains[1] and to simulate the variability of an actual typewriter[2]. I suppose both of these involve discrete objects (the coffee stain, individual characters) and photocopy/scan effects involve 'fuzzing' of the whole image, rather than any particular element, and TeX isn't really set up for the former. [1] http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349 http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349 [2] http://mirrors.concertpass.com/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/typewriter/typewriter-guide.pdf http://mirrors.concertpass.com/tex-archive/macros/luatex/lat...