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minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoThose printer instructions are called Postscript and they’re the basis of PDF. You are thinking that the printing process will rasterize the PDF and then essentially OCR/vector map it back. It’s (usually) not that complicated.
minus-squareDiplomjodler3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoUnless of course you print everything and then scan it again, like this guy probably does.
Those printer instructions are called Postscript and they’re the basis of PDF.
You are thinking that the printing process will rasterize the PDF and then essentially OCR/vector map it back. It’s (usually) not that complicated.
Unless of course you print everything and then scan it again, like this guy probably does.