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Products that do what Make PDFs look scanned in one click does
No scanner? No problem. Realistic scan effects for your docs
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2020 · scanyourpdf.com
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Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
2022 · lookscanned.io
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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.
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Hi, OP here. A friend was involved in a custody battle and was afraid his ex was going to leak all of his discovery documents on the internet and he asked if there was something I could do to make it harder for bots/crawlers to find sensitive information. Originally I was going to turn all of his docs to image based PDFs, but those get large fast and are easy to OCR. So I found a post musing about altering fonts/glyphs so that it looks like english, but the actual character being seen by the pdf reader is a non-english character. As such, when you try to OCR these files, it doesn't…
2022 · humaneyesonly.com
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2023 · github.com
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2015 · searchablepdfs.org
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I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
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The AI document workspace that works fully offline
May 2026 · play.google.com
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Built it for myself. Scans to PDF. Stores nothing.
Jun 2026 · mdarych.github.io
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Scan, edit, search, download & listen to documents for free
Jul 2026 · play.google.com
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Free online OCR editor to edit scanned PDF text in browser
Aug 2026 · editscannedpdf.com
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Finally, a pro document scanner without ads or watermarks.
May 2026 · apps.apple.com
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