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I'm having a similar use case from time to time, I just use imagemagick

magick -density 150 input.pdf \ -colorspace Gray \ -virtual-pixel White -background White \ -rotate 0.7 +repage \ -attenuate 0.45 +noise Gaussian \ -blur 0x0.4 \ -brightness-contrast -5x12 \ -compress jpeg -quality 78 scanned.pdf

Great video about this “incident” and art theft in general https://youtu.be/EwK24E7QryU
Wait till you see Swiss-German

English vs. German vs. Swiss-German Nut vs. Nuss vs. Nüssli Mess vs. Durcheinander vs. Chrüsimüsi Rascal vs. Lausbub vs. Glünggi Chicken vs. Huhn vs. Güggeli

Re:Hacking a Toniebox on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:57PM (#44628203)
Related talk at the Chaos Computer Club congress https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11993-toniebox_reverse_engineeri...

What If? Collaborative Vision for Universal Computing Infrastructure

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Re:Show HN: I built a Matrix themed AI hacking game on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:42AM (#43288355)
And why exactly do I need to login?
True. Sigh.
I don't get it, why not just use AWS CDK?
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:46AM (#41390250)
The joy of living in Australia: $38.00 + $710.23 shipping
Re:Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @04:08PM (#40302310)
Amazing work, kudos! Love the canvas, drag'n'drop and line connectors, did you use a library or made it yourself?
Re:Open-Source Screen Recorder on Friday March 08, 2024 @11:42PM (#39649432)
Why not just use QuickTime out of the box?
Re:I made a virtual bookshelf for book reviews on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:02PM (#32300146)
I'm just leaving this here as future inspiration: http://press.stripe.com
Re:Ask HN: What software/app do you wish would exist? on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:19PM (#21402873)
Generator for answers to the question „What software/app do you wish would exist“