[smith288]

I’ve looked at this and it’s a process of extracting the text from the document when an OCR processes it. Its pretty normal. It’s why there’s white on the layer beneath it.

This horse has been beaten to death.

[Mr. K]

Welcome to the party - we posted all this last week

Newcomer too- ‘The Buffalo News’ today reports that the newest BC has doctor listed as Dr. Sinclair, the old release from Obama has Dr. West

oops....

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

He knew for a few days that he could bury (in the news) the fake BC under the body of OBL.

[moehoward]

Weak demo, and many of his points are incorrect.

There is absolutely no question the White House version has been intentionally manipulated. Definitive proof below...

There are character duplications throughout the document. No amount of "optimization" or OCR will produce these anomalies. The only way this could happen is by copy and paste.

- The As in "STATE OF HAWAII" and "DEPARTMENT (of health)"
- The Ts, Hs and last two Es in "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH"

- The first two squares in box #4

- The second square in box#3 and the first square in 7g

Close up


Side by Side

- The two 1s in "File Number 151"

[justlurking]

He has posted a couple of followup videos that address criticisms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0Tpf1IhxA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJx7jsPV44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_PWzhgvDs

The last one addresses OCR and optimization.

[Longbow1969]

Oh good grief, more birther conspiracy theorists peddling crazy on the internet. It’s over, done, let it go, the issue is completely dead.

We do NOT need conspiracies to defeat Hussein. He is a TERRIBLE president and will be tossed out the White House due to his economic mismanagement.

[popdonnelly]

Not this sh__ again!

[Tarantulas]

If you open any PDF document using Illustrator, you will see layers...created by Illustrator to try to let you edit the document. I opened a simple PDF procedure page with Illustrator and it created hundreds of layers. Each line of text, every part of the page border, etc., all editable. I don’t know why anyone would normally open a PDF with Illustrator anyway, unless they wanted to create a new class of conspiracy theories.

[Matthew James]

bump

[GSWarrior]

I saw Ringo Starr once at a bus stop in Gillette, Wyoming.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It isn’t even a carefully done job, maybe they don’t realize how many people are proficient with Photoshop. If we had access to a better copy the forgery would be even more obvious.

[redhead]

I’m really TIRED of only getting to see DIGITAL documents from this slimy poseur. I want to know there is a PAPER DOCUMENT available for inspection. (I know I’m shouting. I’m upset...)

[sushiman]

Can’t be . Hannity just said the BC issue is over !

[TheBigJ]

excellent vid:

Definitive: Obama Birth Certificate Fake, Fraud, Hoax-100% Proof, Adobe’s OCR Debunked Exposed by Karl Denninger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOfYwYyS_c

Karl Denninger’s post on issue:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=185202

There exist layers with no distortion.

[x]

PDF Layers in Obama’s Birth Certificate
By Nathan Goulding April 27, 2011 2:35 P.M.

We have received several e-mails today calling into question the validity of the PDF that the White House released, namely that there are embedded layers in the document. There are now several other people on the case. We looked into it and dismissed it.

The PDF is composed of multiple images. That’s correct. Using a photo editor or PDF viewer of your choice, you can extract this image data, view it, hide it, etc. But these layers, as they’re being called, aren’t layers in the traditional photo-editing sense of the word. They are, quite literally, pieces of image data that have been positioned in a PDF container. They appear as text but also contain glyphs, dots, lines, boxes, squiggles, and random garbage. They’re not combined or merged in any way. Quite simply, they look like they were created programmatically, not by a human.

What’s plausible is that somewhere along the way — from the scanning device to the PDF-creation software, both of which can perform OCR (optical character recognition) — these partial/pseudo-text images were created and saved. What’s not plausible is that the government spent all this time manufacturing Obama’s birth certificate only to commit the laughably rookie mistake of exporting the layers from Photoshop, or whatever photo editing software they are meant to have used. It’s likely that whoever scanned the birth certificate in Hawaii forgot to turn off the OCR setting on the scanner. Let’s leave it at that.