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      <description>Head height, background, file type and size: we ran a close-up and a far photo through five free passport photo makers, LensUp included, and measured each file.</description>
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      <description>A black box can leave the words in the file. We redacted the same contract and bank statement in LensUp, iLovePDF, Smallpdf and i2PDF and checked what was left.</description>
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      <title>Hitting a KB limit, printing at 3.5 × 4.5 cm, copying an ID card: we measured nine online tools</title>
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      <description>Compress to 100 KB, resize to 3.5 × 4.5 cm at 300 DPI, put an ID card on A4: LensUp and eight other free tools, measured file by file, misses included.</description>
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      <title>How well does a browser scanner find the page? Our corner finder on 1,500 SmartDoc frames</title>
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