NBC responds as follows to thecodont’s question in comment #155:
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/seizethecarp-question-155/
“Seizethecarp: your question has been addressed in the blog posting responding to Butterdezillion.
“If you have any further questions, I am more than happy and willing to address them.”
Thecodont, I am not sure where it was addressed. Maybe you can tell. I will leave it to you or others to follow up with NBC if you wish to, as this is outside my area of expertise.
NBC has posted a detailed rebuttal of WND’s cut-and-paste accusation:
I hope that Zullo will release the Hayes affidavit and that Zebest and the other experts he consulted will take on these new claims by NBC point by point before any more politicians are invited to stick their necks out over the claim that the pdf was forged.
Even if the pdf image can be replicated from a paper document, the LFBC image may still have been forged or altered prior to being fed into the WH Xerox copier!
So some two years later someone finds Optical Character Recognition error done by a Xerox scanner, and the Obamabots conclude it explains all the anomalies . And that the White House Obama birf certificate also used the same Xerox machine that created all those errors.
You know they are full of bullcrap.
And BTW, why use a machine that used OCR when you want a mirror image of the document a bit by bit copy. There was no need to determine what character is what. If it is a “6” or is an “8” ? You would not. You want a picture a photograph like image.
These clowns are blowing smoke up our butts.
thecodont asks
“I am not an expert on this, but would Xerox be using a grayscale (8 bit) to black and white (2-bit) conversion for scans of these text images? Grayscale, of course, provides more information for further processing. You would have to have multiple scans of 8-bit to 2-bit of the same test image and then examine the results under a magnifying glass.”
Here is NBC’s response:
Nope, a monochrome bitmap requires 1 bit (on/off) with 2 bits you can create 4 colors (00, 01, 10, 11). As to looking under a magnifying glass, remember that these are digital documents so we can use better tools. The reason to use B&W is that the image can be stored in 8 times as little information. It’s all about compression here.
Good questions. Finding the identical characters is not much fun and I wish I had a tool to do so. But alas.
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/butterdezillion-some-good-questions/#more-46824