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| Qarl |
 Nov 19 2004, 02:23 PM
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Shriveled member  Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,233 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Florida Member No.: 271 Region Association: None   |
Our company sells coding reference products to dermatologists. These products help physicians and their staff bill insurance companies and Medicare for their services.
Anyways... we have some products that we sell. One of them is a set of these little cheat sheets. We sell them laminated and the doctor carries them around with them from room to room. We often have inquiries about them, wanting to know more. They ask us, "Can you fax me a sample before I buy?"... umm, No! Because if we fax it to you then you have the product. Okay, so I published the product in Acrobat .pdf format. I locked the file, so it can only be viewed. Text cannot be printed, extracted, or cut into another document The average physician and office staff are not savy enough to spend time cracking into this file Here is the link... http://www.iepg.com/quikpik/index.htm Someone play with it and see if the .pdfs are secure enough? I think the only way to extract the data is to... 1. Screenprint the page and print an image of it. 2. Manually type everthing in from the view on the screen. Any other feedback would be apprecaited Muchos Gracias! |
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| McMark |
Nov 19 2004, 02:49 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 20,179 Joined: 13-March 03 From: Grand Rapids, MI Member No.: 419 Region Association: None |
Seems reasonable to me. Should keep 95% of people from stealing it. Alternately, why not just fuzz out some of the details. Or most of them, except the first few. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)
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| aircooledboy |
Nov 19 2004, 03:10 PM
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Sweet Pea's 1st ride in daddy's "vroom -vroom" Group: Members Posts: 1,672 Joined: 4-February 04 From: Rockford, IL Member No.: 1,629 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Shrink to 75% to get whole card on one page, screen cap (print screen), paste to Word, stretch box to fill page, print. Had a nicely legible copy in about 2 minutes, not doing anything my secretary wouldn't know how to do. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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| SirAndy |
Nov 19 2004, 03:35 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,673 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(markd@mac.com @ Nov 19 2004, 01:49 PM) Alternately, why not just fuzz out some of the details. Or most of them, except the first few. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) that way, a screen capture doesn't help them much. fuzz out every 2nd line or something like that, that way, it's pretty useless ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Andy |
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| machina |
Nov 19 2004, 03:49 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,030 Joined: 21-June 03 From: Miami Beach, FL Member No.: 848 |
QUOTE(Qarl @ Nov 19 2004, 03:23 PM) The average physician and office staff are not savy enough to spend time cracking into this file Yeah, but their husbands might manage to... <_< Also, how good is OCR these days? Had about a 2% error rate 5 or 6 years ago, could be better now. Seriously, I don't think its a problem posting those files. Maybe scale them down slightly more. You have the disclaimer across the document anyway. It's no different when I send a client a low res proof of an image. I don't even bother with the disclaimer or anything across the image. I just know my clients pretty well. |
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| Qarl |
Nov 19 2004, 04:25 PM
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Shriveled member Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,233 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Florida Member No.: 271 Region Association: None |
QUOTE Shrink to 75% to get whole card on one page, screen cap (print screen), paste to Word, stretch box to fill page, print. Had a nicely legible copy in about 2 minutes, not doing anything my secretary wouldn't know how to do. Believe me, I don't think most of our web surfers are that sophisticated. Besides, you still get the banner across the message... I don' think I can blurr in Pagemaker... |
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| seanery |
Nov 19 2004, 04:25 PM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
Saved a copy and tried to open it in photoshop, but couldn't. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
I agree with the guys above, blur out some info. |
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| seanery |
Nov 19 2004, 04:26 PM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
then do the text of most boxes in an almost white gray, so you can see it's there, but not too easy to read.
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