Document scanning software that gives high quality but small files?

I am now curious how many pages is this document, and/or how many documents are there, that the server chokes on them? What size file are we talking about?

Heck, if the signer is signing and stamping the last page of a 100 page pile of paper, use the original PDF of the first 99 pages and scan in only the last one with the old fashioned pen & ink scribbles on it. Then tack the one scanned page onto the back of the 99 [save as PDF] pages.

There are legions of freebie online & installable tools that will combine (or split) PDFs page by page.

Not necessarily visually, but if they examine the PDF then they will be able to tell.
The main text of the PDF will be actual text rendered with the appropriate font, and the scanned material will be a placed scanned image on the page with a transparency value to allow the text layer to be visible. All of this is handled by the printing/exporting engine in your document editor to produce the PDF.

This issue is common when people do not understand how to perform a redaction of a PDF document. They black out words with a virtual marker layer that makes the word visually unreadable when displayed, but the underlying text is still there in the text layer of the PDF. It is then trivial to strip out the redaction layer to read the text. Proper PDF redaction involves actually deleting the redacted words as well, and possibly changing the number of spaces to disguise the word size.

Ah, right.

IIRC no jpg is allowed. I’ll doublecheck some time.

If I had photoshop skill, I’d make a signature/stamp file with transparent background. Then theoretically I could apply it anywhere and the readers would hardly be able to notice any difference. I wonder whether there’s a simple way to do that on the internet now, for inexperienced users.

Noted. And yep, most of my docs are created by me.

That’s… kinda impossible :slight_smile: Not really allowed.

Many of my docs are short, but there’s this doc which is 11-page long, with stamps on every page. The raw scan file size is ~10MB IIRC.

This sounds like professional editing. Maybe the creating-a-transparent-image route is easier?

Is a default function of the free adobe acrobat.

No photoshop or skills required.