“We don’t know when the PDF/OCR effect to this doc happened. Could have been when it was scanned, or at the HI DOH as part of some digitization process.”
I am not a technical guy, so I cannot address the rest of your comment, but I do know Hawaii’s digital process should be precluded as the culprit here. How do I know?
Read this...
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20110428__Born_in_the_USA__certificate_shows.html
and
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54087470/Birth-Certificate-Correspondence
The WH insisted on NO electronic copies. It had to be a PHOTOCOPY of the ORIGINAL and CERTIFIED. It was then hand-delivered. No scanning was acceptable. The letter from the Department of Health in Hawaii apparently accompanying the two certified copies was dated April 25, 2011.
The correspondence released by the WH specifically states NO electronic reproductions were used. The Director of Health makes a point in saying in her letter, “I have made an exception to current departmental policy which is to issue a computer-generated certified copy.”
Had Hawaii stuck with their policy and issued a “computer-generated certified copy,” we could question Hawaii. In this instance, we cannot.
Whatever caused these layers, whether it was an innocent mistake or done with malevolence, was done by Obama’s people.
"Whatever caused these layers, whether it was an innocent mistake or done with malevolence, was done by Obama’s people."
If the story is accurate, it could only have been done by the WH. And past experience has shown us Obama tasks out to some real dimwits, so true to form, his team screws the pooch yet again.