#e-Government
Scripting Government PDF Forms and Making Safer ID Copies
Government PDFs distributed as fillable forms often cannot actually handle Thai text. Subdivided fields let digits run over the borders, and tone marks collide with vowels above the line. This article covers listing field names first, filling the fields and flattening them into page content, drawing Thai text with a font that includes all the vowel marks, and making actual-size ID copies with purpose-specific watermarks.
Reading ID Cards from the Web with a Localhost Agent
Browsers cannot access smart card readers directly. A workable approach is to write a small agent that opens a port on localhost and let the web page call it. This article covers secure contexts, CORS preflight, port conflicts with other agents, PC/SC in SHARED mode, decoding TIS-620 manually, and the day antivirus flagged the program as a backdoor.
Food Factory Drawings: Sheets, Scales, and Paper Sizes
A food factory application drawing set has 7 items, each with its own scale range, and some numbers to work out before drawing—how wide a plan will fit on A4 or A3 at 1 to 100, and how to split it across sheets without changing the scale if it will not fit.
SketchUp Drawing Sheets with Automatic Labels and Dimensions
A finished model is not ready for submission yet. What the authorities accept is a set of paper sheets with building numbers, dimension lines, a north arrow, and a scale. This article covers extracting geometry from the model as numbers, rendering a top ortho view as black lines on white, and letting a script place numbers and dimension lines without overlaps, with overrides for individual items.
Printing Dozens of Government Forms from HTML with Correct Margins
A government submission document system where users click Print in their browsers and every sheet must fit within its margins, from measuring the actual printable area in millimeters and repeating headers and footers without position fixed, to four image frame types for different documents and automated overflow checks with Playwright instead of inspecting every sheet.
Government ICT Computer Price Criteria + DIY Builds with Scripts
The December 2568 government ICT reference price criteria clearly define specifications for 20,000 baht office computers and 24,000 baht processing computers. In this article, I read the actual criteria item by item, then write a Python script to pull Advice prices and put together DIY builds to compare how much better the value is than buying prebuilt machines.
MDES 2564 Government CCTV Price Limits and a Hikvision PoE BOM
Read the full MDES June 2564 government CCTV reference pricing and basic specifications before setting a budget, then design a Hikvision IP/PoE BOM that meets the minimum specifications, reference price ceilings, 30-day recording retention rule, and requirement to allow at least 3 brands to compete.