Just for you - I scanned my daughter’s death certificate so you could see how faint we would expect a scanned seal to be.
Right, but different scanner and weaker seal will make a difference. All scanners are not the same. I'll freepmail you my pdf link since I have not place to post it anonymously (the website name is used by me elsewhere with my real name).
The bottom line in my PDF is there is a seal. The best explanation is that it was on the piece of paper that was scanned. Another explanation is that those pixels came from another piece of paper that was scanned then that portion was pasted into the WH artifact (electronic doc eventually exported as the WH PDF). The WH could have also created those seal-like pixels by some handiwork in some program (i.e. with no scanned paper seal as the source).
However it originated, from a real HI seal on a real piece of paper that was a real copy of Obama's 1961 doc, or otherwise, it exists. To argue that because they are weak, the pixels do not exist ignores the reality that they exist or that they are pure coincidence (too many to be coincidence). What we lack is an explanation of their origin.
We have no way of knowing where that outline of a circle came from. It is too indistinct, even when edge detection techniques are applied.
This is EXACTLY the kind of vague seal that the HHS inspector general was talking about when he said that all the identification, vital records, and citizenship documents need to be audited before taking anything on that document as accurate.