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Slim PDF: from a PDF signing tool to a slim PDF editor in three days

How a small PAdES signing tool grew into slim-pdf: smartcards and KeePass as key sources, a ribbon GUI, form filling, OCR with each system’s own engine, text search, and why the license ended up as GPL-3.0.

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Slim Scan: a feeder-to-PDF scanner app for Linux, built in a week

How a document scanner without eSCL/AirScan led to slim-scan: a pure-Python WSD client, a GTK 4 desktop app, image clean-up on the scanned pages, a SANE backend, and two upstream bugs in the epsonds driver.