Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

Re:Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned by mNovak on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:51PM (#23162106)

For other noobish windows users like myself, you can simply dump the following into a bat file. When run, it'll look for a file called "scanThis.pdf" and apply the conversion with ImageMagick.

   IF EXIST scanThis.pdf (magick convert -density 100 scanThis.pdf -colorspace gray +noise Gaussian -rotate 0.5 -depth 2 SCANNED.pdf) ELSE (ECHO File scanThis.pdf not found & PAUSE)

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Re:Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned by stormdennis on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:43AM (#23163546)

Sorry, I'm a long term Windows user but not very proficient. That can't be there entire contents of the bat file, can it? What else goes in there?

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Re:Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned by mNovak on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:58AM (#23163619)

Nope that's it. The bat file here is just a clickable shortcut so you don't have to remember the whole command. The interesting stuff is happening in ImageMagick, which has to be installed already.

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Re:Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned by stormdennis on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:26AM (#23163753)

Ok thanks, that's interesting. I might give it a shot

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