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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

“someone searching for a document containing ‘Barack’ wouldn’t find this, while someone searching for ‘ack’ would. - HHTVL

Silliness - the WH_LFCOLB.pdf has no text at all - it is all images. OCR was not done on the WH_LFCOLB.pdf.

Why do you spread such patently false information?

HMMMMM...


274 posted on 07/20/2011 12:38:51 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Triple
OCR was not done on the WH_LFCOLB.pdf.

You don't know that. All you know is that there was no searchable text in the PDF file posted online. The final PDF was apparently prepared on a Mac. It is possible--just possible, mind you--that the original scan was done in software that could read the OCR layer, but was then converted using something else that stripped that layer out.

This is all just a hypothetical exercise in how computer programs might have produced the anomalies we see without intentional manipulation. I still find that scenario easier to swallow than the idea that someone copied bits and pieces of lots of different documents--one capital 'R' from this one, a different capital 'R' from another one--and assembled them into a file that reveals layers in Illustrator but not Photoshop.

276 posted on 07/20/2011 2:49:11 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Triple
Silliness - the WH_LFCOLB.pdf has no text at all - it is all images. OCR was not done on the WH_LFCOLB.pdf.

Why do you spread such patently false information?

HMMMMM...

He is arguing that it was the unintended consequence of making a copy of the document by using software that was intended to generate a searchable text file. This begs the question? Does the State of Hawaii not own a Xerox machine?

286 posted on 07/21/2011 8:15:12 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (The TAIL of Hawaiian Bureaucracy WAGS the DOG of Constitutional Law.)
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