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You specifically are technologically proficient. Not everybody knows how to export to a tiff and then OCR. 98% don't. When I say "OCR Resistant", I mean that I

You specifically are technologically proficient. Not everybody knows how to export to a tiff and then OCR. 98% don't. When I say "OCR Resistant", I mean that I haven't found PDF software with built in OCR that has managed to extract the english text back out.

thrown_22 4y ago
That's like saying a lock is pick resistant because you haven't been able to open it with a dead fish. Words mean things, if what you did can't stand up to 20 year old technology then it's basically useless. Remove the claim that it resists OCR and just called it copy/paste proof and unsearchable.
- smegsicle 4y ago
  if a lock convinces most popular lock-picking devices to use the ineffective dead fish technique then it's something atleast
  - thrown_22 4y ago
    Using tesseract ocr is literally the first thing anyone does.
kube-system 4y ago
PDF software doesn't attempt to OCR text because it is already text. This fools PDF software not to even attempt to OCR rather than defeating OCR. What you're resisting here is the ability for other applications scrape the already text-format text.