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it occurs to me that you could do this with a lower tech method, just sign your name on a piece of scotch tape and align the tape on the monitor over the document, take a photo with your phone and then use that as the 'scanned image' in the pdf file.


Taking a picture of a monitor with a will usually result in a Moire pattern[1] since the image sensors is a grid and the display pixels are grid.

Just tried this. Orienting your phone at 45 degrees to the monitor can mostly reduce them, but that's not really that useful.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern


Who owns pens in 2020?




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