If the layers truly indicate that the document was artificially constructed, then why do the layers themselves look so machine-created? There are words (not only within the text entered on the form, but within the background text on the form itself) that are split between layers (e.g., the first half of a word is on one layer, the rest on another). For example, the (pre-printed) line “Name of Hospital or Institution (If not in hospital or institution, give street address)” is split among two layers as follows:
one layer contains “N___ _f H______l __ I__________ (If ___ __ h_______ __ ____________ ____ ______ add____)”
another layer contains “_ame o_ _ospita_ or _nstitution ___ not in _ospital or institution, give street ___ress_”
If a human made the layers deliberately, why would they split that sentence (or any of the other words/lines that are so split) across different layers?
If you take a moment to consider the actual content of the actual layers in the document, it is clear that the layers were machine-created anomalies resulting from the scanning/compression process. If a person were to artificially create a document, there is no way it would look like this one.
No, they are not.