[ml/nj]

When I first learned that there were layers in the document, I found it suspicious. When I went on Youtube to watch the videos 'proving' the document was fake because of the layers, it became clear to me 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.

I think you have to ask why anyone would write a program to do this either.

Since this Bamie BC II was released my wife sent me a couple of documents that she scanned at her office and they came to me as pdfs. I asked her how she converted them to pdfs and she had no clue. It was just what the scanner sent to her computer. And all the pixels on the documents she sent were of uniform size.

ML/NJ

[Conscience of a Conservative]

I think you have to ask why anyone would write a program to do this either.

No one would write a program with the intent of doing this either. Machine-driven processes are inherently imperfect. If a program is attempting to differentiate text from non-text, for example, there may be stray pieces of text that the program is unable to recognize as text.