[GunRunner]

It's called Optical Character Recognition software. When you scan something into a PDF, Acrobat scans the text into different layers and makes the text searchable.

You can deactivate it when you scan something into a PDF, but whoever scanned it obviously forgot to turn it off, and now because of this we will be treated to many more years of wild conspiracy theories, all because some government employee made a rookie mistake.

[for-q-clinton]

how about the signatures? Why are some on different layers?

[JennysCool]

I’ve never seen OCR software create “boxes” as are exhibited around the signature and the date on the form.

Or maybe I just haven’t been around enough! :-)

[Marie]

It's called Optical Character Recognition software. When you scan something into a PDF, Acrobat scans the text into different layers and makes the text searchable.

It is my true hope that you or another FReeper posts a new thread demonstrating this for all of us to see. My daughter knows a LOT more about computers than I do and she's yelling "fake!" because of the layers.

If someone could PLEASE demonstrate this, it would save us ALL a big headache!

(I'm one of the ones who thinks this all stinks to high-heaven, but desperately wants the issue to go away so we can focus on slamming the jerk into the ground for destroying our economy!)