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by a-dub 721 days ago
i think the fact that they put a digital signature of any kind on the paper transcript is pretty cool.

would be kinda neat if there were a combined standard where there were a deterministic scheme for ocr'ing the text (specifically its ordering) as well as an accompanying signature so that the signature actually signed the text that appears on the document.

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There are a few applications that do that - but it is a patent minefield, courtesy of the biggest patent troll in history:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/14/the-pat...