GoKawiilA CLI that takes a PDF and degrades it to look like a physical scan of a printout — skew, grayscale, warm paper tone, scanner grain, defocus, edge shadow, and JPEG compression artifacts. Also runs client-side in the browser via WASM.
Each page is rasterized to an image, run through the effect pipeline, and reassembled into a new image-only PDF (the original selectable text is gone — faithful to a basic scanner).
Build
Requires Go and a C toolchain (go-fitz links MuPDF via cgo, so the binary is self-contained — nothing to install at runtime).
go build -o make-look-scanned .
Usage
make-look-scanned [flags] input.pdf
Flags may appear before or after the input filename.
make-look-scanned in.pdf # -> in.scanned.pdf make-look-scanned in.pdf -o out.pdf make-look-scanned in.pdf --noise 0.4 --skew 2.5 --jpeg-quality 30
Flags
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