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Is there a way to digitally markup a pdf so its not OCR-readable?

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Is there a way to digitally markup a pdf so its not OCR-readable?

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No Stupid Questions · 15 days ago

Want to ensure financial documents cant be parsed by automated systems

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This is correct. There are also typefaces that are designed to be difficult for OCR eg https://www.librarystack.org/zxx/

These are, however, difficult for humans to read as well.

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