Greetings. Recently a common artist from the server i'm working on has doing art in traditional, but can't upload any of the images because are taked with a camera (the artist is newbie in digital art, and lacks a scanner of course).
I wonder if CamScanner images are valid for uploading? a mobile app that allows edit photos to crop them cleanly like a scanner, and even apply filters for black and white inked works or documents.

CamScanner despite use directly photos from the phone, generates new pics after procces them. This makes the valid for upload or aren't still valid?

Thanks before hand

From Uploading guidelines

• High quality photographs (or scans) of traditional, drawn artwork on a paper canvas.
• Photo edits/manipulations are also okay as long as they're high quality.

It's up to you to judge if you think the scan is high quality enough.

I will point out you could go to a local library to use a scanner and put it onto a flash drive, or your local college if you take classes currently.

bobbertjones said:
From Uploading guidelines

It's up to you to judge if you think the scan is high quality enough.

I will point out you could go to a local library to use a scanner and put it onto a flash drive, or your local college if you take classes currently.

I was sure that photography drawings were not valid for security, can't remember were i read it.
As for the tip...like if that guy will leand a pendrive full of porn to his school printer.

ucumarrey said:
I was sure that photography drawings were not valid for security, can't remember were i read it.
As for the tip...like if that guy will leand a pendrive full of porn to his school printer.

You should refer only to uploading guidelines, not sure where you got that security thing from.

Didn't know you were uploading porn, but yeah. Probably would not be wise to go to your school/local library and scan a bunch of porn through their system. Maybe they'd allow it, but I'd bet they wouldn't.

It depends on just how good those pictures are. The issue with photographed art instead of scanned art is not security, it's quality. It's far harder to get a photograph of a picture to look good than it is for a scan, which is why it's recommended to get a scanner. CamScanner can't save a picture that wasn't photographed well, and cell phone cameras are generally terrible at taking a high enough quality picture good enough to be accepted here. Just getting the lighting right is an artform all in itself. A scanner will make things a heck of a lot easier on the artist.

But if the artist can manage to at least make scanner-quality pictures, then those pictures could possibly get approved, but no guarantees.

bobbertjones said:
Didn't know you were uploading porn, but yeah. Probably would not be wise to go to your school/local library and scan a bunch of porn through their system. Maybe they'd allow it, but I'd bet they wouldn't.

Even if they allowed it, it would be a whole lot of embarrassment for everyone concerned. The artist is wise not to use a public access scanner for that sort of thing.

clawstripe said:
The issue with photographed art instead of scanned art is not security, it's quality.

Unless the site strips metadata from files, there is a potential security concern since some cameras/phones may embed the time and location a photo was taken.

watsit said:
Unless the site strips metadata from files, there is a potential security concern since some cameras/phones may embed the time and location a photo was taken.

A good point. Less site security and more personal security. On the other hand, since

CamScanner despite use directly photos from the phone, generates new pics after procces them.

that should, as far as I can tell, effectively strip away any offending metadata. Although, since I don't know how CamScanner works, I couldn't say for sure.

ucumarrey said:
Greetings. Recently a common artist from the server i'm working on has doing art in traditional, but can't upload any of the images because are taked with a camera (the artist is newbie in digital art, and lacks a scanner of course).
I wonder if CamScanner images are valid for uploading? a mobile app that allows edit photos to crop them cleanly like a scanner, and even apply filters for black and white inked works or documents.

CamScanner despite use directly photos from the phone, generates new pics after procces them. This makes the valid for upload or aren't still valid?

Thanks before hand

Does the artist have a printer? In spite of scanner and printer being 2 different words, a printer can scan an image, I've done it before.

wolfmanfur said:
Does the artist have a printer? In spite of scanner and printer being 2 different words, a printer can scan an image, I've done it before.

Printer prints, scanner scans, copier (copy machine) does both.

TBF, nothing says that scanner software doesn't also add location/user data. In fact, I'm pretty sure they do. At least it doesn't do GPS. Just a bunch of unique identifiers like OS license number or username. ;)

alphamule said:
TBF, nothing says that scanner software doesn't also add location/user data. In fact, I'm pretty sure they do. At least it doesn't do GPS. Just a bunch of unique identifiers like OS license number or username. ;)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=exif+removal

I think we might've gotten sidetracked from the main point.

The best way to figure out if the quality is acceptable is to post an example artwork here and have a few folks see what it looks like.

Yeah. The whole point of CamScanner is to make photographs not look like photographs. If you do it properly, it should be completely fine.

kora_viridian said:
I made a little doodle and stuck it in my Laserjet 4. Nothing is happening. Please advise.

Have you tried buying a new cartridge, and switching it? <--- Reference to Inkjet printers that did that crap. If you printer is Lexmark or HP, then you likely got scammed, kek. If I ever get a printer again, it's going to be LASERtoner-based or take ink tanks instead of overpriced injected sponges.

That's just what it puts in the EXIF. The PC can stegano your IP and processor serial number into the pixels and you'd probably never know. Now, where did I put my hat?

LOL, that's a funny comic.

There was an interesting concept where natural analog properties of a camera could also be a sort of signature. i.e. Noise on image sensors is not actually random, and small manufacturing differences could show up in mechanical film cameras. Not really applicable I think, to cell phone cameras in 2023 where the software processes the heck out of it. There's some really cool stuff in the field of device identification when you want to know say, what OS a PC has or what program made an HTTP(S) request.

BTW: Yellow-dotting is the process of printing dots into paper to make counterfeiting really, really obvious, but coincidentally, also makes leaked document scans really easy to trace. ;)