Proof of incompetence by someone, Nicht Wahr? Probably just lack of awareness. We don't know where the scan was made, but it was probably at the Hawaii DOH, Obama's lawyer's office, or the WH. In all cases, I can see the IT person installing the document archiving system and turning on the OCR part, because 90% of the time, that's what they'd want and they don't want the user to have to think about it. In this case, the user didn't think about it.
Somewhere in one of these threads "Bushpilot1" (I think) posted a link that purports to show what software was used to create the document. If I recall properly, he said it was some Apple application.
It's not really an application, it's a PDF handler built into OS X--I think it's what lets any Mac application "print" a PDF file. It doesn't tell us what software was used for scanning, or even for printing the PDF. I do know (I'm a Mac user) that there's a filter for "Reduce File Size" when you're creating a PDF in at least one Apple program--I don't know exactly what it does, though.
I think that theory does nothing to explain why the pixels of the "R" are 4 times the size of the pixels of all the other letters. If it thought it was part of the background, it would use the default pixel size.
It would be because after the letters were extracted from the background, the background was "downsampled" to a lower resolution. That "expert" I pointed you to before (I'm only using quotes because it's WND that labeled her an expert--I can't vouch for her myself) wrote:
The use of OCR software and image optimization have a number of other effects on documents. Each of these issues, which can result from OCR or optimization processing, may have led to the appearance of tampering and manipulation, and accusations of forgery.Pixel size: In any scanned image, pixels are all the same size. Pixels in the President’s birth certificate, however, are not. The pixels around the optimized text are a much smaller size than the background pixels.
I do know (I'm a Mac user) that there's a filter for "Reduce File Size" when you're creating a PDF in at least one Apple program--I don't know exactly what it does, though. What do you think of the teaching profession?
It would be because after the letters were extracted from the background, the background was "downsampled" to a lower resolution. That "expert" I pointed you to before (I'm only using quotes because it's WND that labeled her an expert--I can't vouch for her myself) wrote:
"The use of OCR software and image optimization have a number of other effects on documents. Each of these issues, which can result from OCR or optimization processing, may have led to the appearance of tampering and manipulation, and accusations of forgery."
"Pixel size: In any scanned image, pixels are all the same size. Pixels in the President’s birth certificate, however, are not. The pixels around the optimized text are a much smaller size than the background pixels."
Coarser pixels are "De-optimized." Not "Optimized. Under no circumstances does it make sense to coarsen the resolution. None. It makes even less sense to coarsen the resolution while at the same time increasing the bit depth. They are contra purpose to each other! It just makes stuff look fuzzy.