Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸"We can't accept this digital document."
*prints out the page*
"Ah yes, this is legal proof."
German federal agencies, 2023.
Fell@Natanox I forgot the name, but someone made a tool that converts a PDF document into a PDF document that looks like it was printed and then scanned, to get it accepted by German authorities.
Orangenoel
Teal Starsong
André Bering@fell @Natanox Apart from the already mentioned lookscanned.io (https://github.com/rwv/lookscanned.io) what about using a simple bash script: https://gist.github.com/andyrbell/25c8632e15d17c83a54602f6acde2724
christian mock
MichaLäuft
Fabian Köster
nehrka - RIP Natenom@maestro_alubia
Don't know if it's a good idea to send private documents to some random website.
Johannes Baiter
Lula Witzescher
Amenothep@Natanox No No No. Print IT and then send a Fax....👆
Daniel Silverstone - Moved@Natanox My favourite of these was once when I was told "We can't accept this digital document, but we can accept an emailed photo of a document" so I took a photo of my screen showing the digital document and emailed that instead. Much larger (data-wise) and less useful, but they accepted it.
Dr. Karoline Busse@Natanox that's probably because the corresponding law still requires a hand written signature. The buzzword is "Schriftformerfordernis" and the only way to compliantly work around this is using the electronic ID on your Perso. So yes, the federal agency is likely also breaking the law with this procedure. See BSI TR-03107-2 for the nerdy details.
undead enby of the apocalypse
Quincy ⁂Sounds familiar.
And, equally sadly: also the other way round (not at all uncommon:
present a perfectly fine printout of a "digital" covid vaccine certificate or railway ticket, just to be told it's "not valid" and even threatened* by the #kontrolletti because it's not on a screen ...)
* actually happened to a friend
Bex B. Sc.@Natanox die Unterschrift muss mit dokumentenechter Tinte nach ISO 12757-2 erfolgen lmao
Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈)@Natanox I've heard nightmare stories about some Spanish public servants only accepting printed documents that were signed with blue ink pens and having marks of having been folded "to prove that they had been signed by hand, because who knows if that block signature was also printed".
mia@Natanox reminds me of when my partner was trying to update their state ID, the office needed a copy of the driving record, so I had to download a PDF and use an online fax service to fax it to them
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