How do I get this grainy scanned text effect?

[PSoverrated]

Like in the picture attached. For the text it seems to look a bit smudged with some shadow and blur but not sure how this was done.

[rich2005]

You can get close using:

(1) Put the text on a white background.
(2) Apply Filters -> Noise -> RGB Noise. Play with the sliders to suit.
(3) The blur might be intended or accidental. For a small blur use Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur and enter a 0.5 value manually.

   

[Ofnuts]

If you want to distort the text a bit:

• Get a selection from the text layer
  
• Select > Grow by 1 pixel (to compensate a slight shrinkage in the text step
  
• Select > Distort with Threshold: 254 and low values elsewhere
  

   

• Add a new lawyer and bucket fill the selection
  
• Perhaps add a very light Gaussian blur (Size: 0.50 - 1.00), and play with contrast in the alpha channel