Comment by insertchatbot
11 hours ago
Not to mention when the White House published Obama's birth certificate as a PDF. I remember being able to open it and turn the different layers off and on.
11 hours ago
Not to mention when the White House published Obama's birth certificate as a PDF. I remember being able to open it and turn the different layers off and on.
Are you trying to suggest that indicated it was fraudulent? That has very much been debunked -- it's just an artifact of OCR and compression, something that many scanners do automatically [1].
You can still open it with Illustrator if you want to see: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss...
[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birth-certificate/
Yeah, the idea that proves it's fraudulent has been debunked, but the alternative hasn't been proven, either. Nobody has named the specific OCR software that does this destructive replacement. It's a case of "well, there's an alterastive theory, and that's good enough" debunking.
Not sure what you mean by destructive replacement, since nothing is destroyed.
So I just looked into this, and it's specifically Mixed Raster Content pipeline (ISO/IEC 16485) used in lots of different scanners. There's no need to find which specific software generated it because it's used by lots of them.
It's a technique used to attempt to isolate font characters of the same size and style as separate layers before OCR-ing to make OCR more accurate.
ABBYY FineReader, for example, is mentioned as producing the exact same type of results. But there's no guarantee that was the actual software because lots of scanning software does it -- it's a general technique. Plus it won't even be deterministically reproducible if it was e.g. scanned and OCR'd at higher resolution and then saved at a lower resolution, as is generally considered best practice for maximizing accuracy while keeping file sizes lower.
https://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2013/01/heres-the-birth-cert...
So this is very much a nothingburger. It's not an "alternative theory", it's a complete and total explanation.
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Yes, signed by “U.K.L. Lee” himself. Did you actually look at it? These FBI goombas aren’t even trying.
If you're going to promote conspiracy theories here, you should at least explain them. The rest of us can't really be bothered to look them up.