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		thrown_22 on July 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: PDFs that are readable by human eyes only 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 on July 6, 2022 [–]

if a lock convinces most popular lock-picking devices to use the ineffective dead fish technique then it's something atleast

thrown_22 on July 7, 2022 | [–]

Using tesseract ocr is literally the first thing anyone does.

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