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Comment by cyphar

21 days ago

I wrote a project to do this a few years ago[1], it's mainly missing an automated mechanism to scan the PDFs and a GUI. Maybe you'll find it interesting.

[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/paperback

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eljojo  20 days ago

hey, this is a great idea! I'll link into your app from my readme. I really like that the PDF contains the entire dataset, not just the keys. I see lots of little details around organizing the PDFs, like document hashes, etc, very nice job!

Since you wrote it in Rust, I'd suggest compiling it to wasm and releasing a browser-based version

  • cyphar  20 days ago

    > Since you wrote it in Rust, I'd suggest compiling it to wasm and releasing a browser-based version

    That was my eventual plan for having a single GUI for everything, the only problem is that there isn't a really obvious way to support scanning a PDF you upload -- basically you need a pure-Rust PDF renderer and there isn't one up to the task as far as I could tell. On mobile you could scan each QR code separately (though doing this from a webapp is probably going to be a fairly awful UX and most people would prefer to photograph the whole document and get everything scanned automatically).