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Make Any PDF Look Physically Scanned

A Go CLI — also runnable in the browser via WebAssembly — that degrades any PDF so it looks like a physical scan of a printout, grain and all.

A command-line tool written in Go that processes every page of a PDF through a series of degradation filters: slight skew, grayscale, warm paper tone, scanner grain, edge shadows, and JPEG compression artifacts. The result is indistinguishable from a document you actually printed and ran through a scanner. It also compiles to WebAssembly, so you can run the same transformation entirely in the browser without installing anything.

Why a vibe-coder should care

When you need to submit a scanned version of a document but only have the digital original, this tool saves you the trip to the printer. Useful for bureaucratic forms, contracts, and anything where a clean PDF looks too pristine to be trusted.

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