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Reminds me of patio11 talking about the phenomenon of having bureaucracy only accept wet signatures so services like this would help automate that. https://twi

Reminds me of patio11 talking about the phenomenon of having bureaucracy only accept wet signatures so services like this would help automate that. https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1249630998788108288 https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1249630998788108288

Moto7451 5y ago
I just had to do this dumb dance with TD Ameritrade. I did a coin toss on print/scan v.s. learning to do this with ImageMagick. Since I had a bunch of other deadlines to hit I wasted paper so they would accept my electronic submission. Personally, from a workflow standpoint I'd prefer a PDF Printer driver that would add the effect. I'm sure the website is better for Mobile.
- Cub3 5y ago
  I reckon you could sell this, a PDF printer driver that fakes the "scanned" look
dannygarcia 5y ago
My biggest concern with an online service is privacy (either bad actors or the web app getting hacked). I used an online mortgage service that was fully paperless with the exception of a single document. Just ran it through a few imagemagick commands to add rotation, noise, contrast, etc. My home printer wasn't working so it was either that or buy a whole new one.
- paulgb 5y ago
  > My biggest concern with an online service is privacy In this case it's all run client-side. You're still trusting that the code you're served wasn't maliciously replaced, but if you want to be careful you could run it in an incognito tab and temporarily disable your internet connection.
  - krossitalk 5y ago
    How would you download the payload without an internet connection? Let's presume it is malicious, and the mere act of downloading the WASM starts an injection.
    - paulgb 5y ago
      Ah, I was ambiguous about that, but I mean these steps: 1. load the site in an incognito tab 2. disable internet 3. run the conversion and download the result 4. close the incognito tab 5. re-connect the internet
      - achn 5y ago
        Are there browser extensions that simply disable all future requests from being sent from the immediate tab?
        jannes 5y ago
        In Chrome dev tools you can set the network throttling to "Offline". In Firefox this is not possible (per tab), but at least you can set the entire browser to offline mode by clicking "File -> Work Offline"
        paulgb 5y ago
        It's possible for an extension to intercept and block requests, but as Kevin mentions in your sibling comment, it's not enough because they could write data to local storage and then read it later when you're back online if you ever visited that domain again. An extension would have to cover a lot of bases to ensure that data couldn't leak, and I wouldn't trust one to cover them all.
        jonny_eh 5y ago
        In Chrome, open the Inspector, go to "Netork", then in the dropdown that says "No throttling" choose "offline".
      - kevin_nisbet 5y ago
jimmydorry 5y ago
I still have to deal with bureaucracy that requires wet signatures. I've tried a few tools like this one, but no bueno. They could tell it was "digitally signed".
ModernMech 5y ago
That got weird fast (caution NSFW). It looks like an interesting project, but then it quickly devolved into a PDF filled with drawings of penises. Quite unexpected, glad I wasn't viewing it with my students in the room lol.
forum_ghost 5y ago
wet ink exists for a reason. Some things are far too sensitive to ever touch a computer.

Moto7451 5y ago

I just had to do this dumb dance with TD Ameritrade. I did a coin toss on print/scan v.s. learning to do this with ImageMagick. Since I had a bunch of other deadlines to hit I wasted paper so they would accept my electronic submission. Personally, from a workflow standpoint I'd prefer a PDF Printer driver that would add the effect. I'm sure the website is better for Mobile.

Cub3 5y ago
I reckon you could sell this, a PDF printer driver that fakes the "scanned" look

dannygarcia 5y ago

My biggest concern with an online service is privacy (either bad actors or the web app getting hacked). I used an online mortgage service that was fully paperless with the exception of a single document. Just ran it through a few imagemagick commands to add rotation, noise, contrast, etc. My home printer wasn't working so it was either that or buy a whole new one.

paulgb 5y ago
> My biggest concern with an online service is privacy In this case it's all run client-side. You're still trusting that the code you're served wasn't maliciously replaced, but if you want to be careful you could run it in an incognito tab and temporarily disable your internet connection.
- krossitalk 5y ago
  How would you download the payload without an internet connection? Let's presume it is malicious, and the mere act of downloading the WASM starts an injection.
  - paulgb 5y ago
    Ah, I was ambiguous about that, but I mean these steps: 1. load the site in an incognito tab 2. disable internet 3. run the conversion and download the result 4. close the incognito tab 5. re-connect the internet
    - achn 5y ago
      Are there browser extensions that simply disable all future requests from being sent from the immediate tab?
      - jannes 5y ago
        In Chrome dev tools you can set the network throttling to "Offline". In Firefox this is not possible (per tab), but at least you can set the entire browser to offline mode by clicking "File -> Work Offline"
      - paulgb 5y ago
        It's possible for an extension to intercept and block requests, but as Kevin mentions in your sibling comment, it's not enough because they could write data to local storage and then read it later when you're back online if you ever visited that domain again. An extension would have to cover a lot of bases to ensure that data couldn't leak, and I wouldn't trust one to cover them all.
      - jonny_eh 5y ago
        In Chrome, open the Inspector, go to "Netork", then in the dropdown that says "No throttling" choose "offline".
    - kevin_nisbet 5y ago

jimmydorry 5y ago

I still have to deal with bureaucracy that requires wet signatures. I've tried a few tools like this one, but no bueno. They could tell it was "digitally signed".

ModernMech 5y ago

That got weird fast (caution NSFW). It looks like an interesting project, but then it quickly devolved into a PDF filled with drawings of penises. Quite unexpected, glad I wasn't viewing it with my students in the room lol.

forum_ghost 5y ago

wet ink exists for a reason. Some things are far too sensitive to ever touch a computer.