Comment on Save as PDF

• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I deliberately use the print as image feature if I don’t want someone to be able to select text or search the document (like if I’m sending something with sensitive info as an attachment to an email). Most of the time, I have that option disabled so the document can be searchable and text can be copied from it.

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  • RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    fwiw its trivial to OCR it. single click in many pdf software.

    but I guess it slows down some people

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right…the idea isn’t to make it foolproof, it’s just to make a barrier. People generally go for easier targets over ones with a small barrier. If you have two bikes next to each other in public, one with a bike lock and one with no lock at all, the casual thief is way more likely to steal the one without a lock. Bike locks can easily be broken, but they serve as a deterrent.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gmail reads the images with OCR and adds it to search terms. Your steps are a noble effort to increase reverse engineering effort, however there are image to text desktop apps now so that effort on the receivers side is almost nothing these days.

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