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I'm a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.
It was probably cuz you can't run plagiarism checks on it.
Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
That bad eh
Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.
Please tell me that you at least showed the student that you can save a word doc as a pdf.
I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.
I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
I've had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation