Imagine you have a privacy-sensitive document that you would like to print but you don't have a printer at home/office and have to rely on a third party to print it for you. You have to give them the pdf by uploading it on their website emailing, etc. where you have little control over the file.
My idea here is to make a file that is made from the pdf but is blank on-screen and previews but when executed by the third party, will make the pre-defined number of copies in color or black and white.
The file cannot be opened/executed again. The print preview is blank/blurred out. I think it is time to improve how we print, hence starting pdf3.
Are they any other weak points?
Do you think there is a market for it given the growing concerns about data privacy?
Any ideas on how to build/implement it?
If this were to be a B2B, which business could be targeted?
(For example, FedEx Print and Go or FedEx Office https://www.office.fedex.com/default/configurator/index/index?id=1534436209752-4-3)
B2B as in TrustPilot shows social proof that a business is trustworthy.)
Don't start with an idea - start with a problem.
Do you know anybody that has this problem? I don't. So my guess is that there is no market.
I have had the problem, and am trying to solve my itch here. I was wondering if others faced a similar problem. Do you have a printer at home?
Ok, just make sure that the market exists.
Yes I have one
the entire idea is to hide the content but the person that will end up printing it will see the content anyway so why hiding it on a first place?
A glance is slightly different from having the pdf on their system to view again, share, and do anything while very few people can have a photographic memory of the contents
Only the next version of the solution can 100% solve the problem: An unmanned printing station like an ATM will the above-mentioned software. Nobody including the owner of the station will be able to see what was printed.
Scaling the software would be faster than putting up such print stations.
Thank you, will be connecting with you on LinkedIn.