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by Zikes 4032 days ago
A stenographed image embedded in a Word document, printed and faxed to a document archive that scans and digitizes it, embeds the scan in a PDF, and emails it back to you.
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Pretty sure this happens in Washington DC when bills need to be reviewed by various departments.
The original image is a picture of a worker's monitor displaying some error message that IT asked for.

I'm not joking either.

During this process you will lose data. A lot of data.
Can you make that fully automated from the end user's perspective?
Hey, client of mine, you need to pay my invoice. Also, that photo you sent me won't open.