Many organizations in India require us to submit "self-attested" documents. Self-attestation simply means affixing your signature to a photocopy of a document. This same requirement has also been preserved when one uploads these documents online. Here are the steps I followed in order to convert an already existing document image without self-attestation into one with a signature:
- Used https://www.scanwritr.com/app/ in order to create a pdf document with a signature. Note that the original file was a .jpg file
- On my Linux machine I ran the command pdftoppm foo_self_attested.pdf foo_self_attested -jpeg -singlefile to generate a .jpg file out of the pdf file
The resulting file was acceptable to the "National Voters' Services Portal" (I was trying to apply for my Election card)
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