How to fake handwriting on pdf without printer and scanner?
Bureaucracy sometimes requires us to print a document, fill in blank fields, sign it, scan it and send it back. Is there an easy way to fool the bureaucrats when no printer or scanner are available? I already found lookslikescanned.com (dead link) which allows you to make a PDF look liked scanned, but I still haven't figured out yet a way to generate fake handwriting on a PDF document as if it had been written with a pen on actual paper.
Historical note: here is what lookslikescanned.com looked like when it existed, courtesy of the Wayback Machine.
I have no idea what your bureaucrats are looking for specifically, but you could just:
- take a picture of your writing/signature written on real paper with a real pen
- use an editor (PDF or image editor like gimp) to add your small written images onto the PDF
There is an online tool to make a pdf look scanned and it has the ability to insert signatures that look handwritten:
https://supertool.org/make-a-pdf-look-printed-and-scanned/