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		Osiris on Jan 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand s... If you have a PDF editor that can save a PDF/A (archive PDF), it'll convert the whole document into an image. So, I just paste in my signature and export as a PDF/A and from their perspective it's just a single image like it was scanned.

joshuaissac on Jan 22, 2022 [–]

PDF/A does not turn everything into an image. It is just a more restricted version of the PDF format, and it still has text, embedded fonts, etc.

The image conversion might be a separate feature in your PDF editor.

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