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To: Hank All-American
Exactly how does "scanning" a document "change its font"? Also mysterious is how the signature (which is supposedly authentic according to CBS's "handwriting expert", right?) somehow survived this spooky "scanning" process.

These guys just won't let go of their delusions.

8 posted on 09/17/2004 5:01:28 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Dr. Frank fan
"Exactly how does "scanning" a document "change its font"? Also mysterious is how the signature (which is supposedly authentic according to CBS's "handwriting expert", right?) somehow survived this spooky "scanning" process"

Relax...it's just Al Gore testing his focussed gravity beam time transporter.

Just happened to point it at the photocopier.

Problem is...it only works with one date 4th May 1971.

29 posted on 09/17/2004 5:09:24 PM PDT by spokeshave (Traitor Kerry did for free what the POWs received torture to make them say)
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To: Dr. Frank fan
Exactly how does "scanning" a document "change its font"?

Sounds like they are tossing out as a trial ballon the idea that the originals (typed?) were scanned and run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, which coverts the scanned image of text into text. Assuming it was done on a PC with Times New Roman TT fonts, they could argue the output would look like what CBS has in the mystery documents.

All of which is very nice, except there's no way to distinguish between an OCR'ed document and one that was typed last week on a PC!

Unless they have the original docs from the 1970's, it's not believeable.

That doesn't even address the issue regarding the content of the meoes being bogus (Army vs. Air Force terminology, etc.)

51 posted on 09/17/2004 5:18:37 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: Dr. Frank fan
The only way I know of changing a font through scanning is by using Adobe Acrobat (full version) with character recognition, but documents done this way look really bad and it's only done to allow rapid text search.

Otherwise scanning the document is the same as copying except for resolution usually being much better on a scan.

59 posted on 09/17/2004 5:23:54 PM PDT by capt. norm (Rap is to music what the Etch-A-Sketch is to art.)
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To: Dr. Frank fan
Exactly how does "scanning" a document "change its font"?

It's kind of difficult to explain to non-techies, but it could have happened when Kenneth changed the frequencies.

114 posted on 09/17/2004 7:49:18 PM PDT by ScuzzyTerminator
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To: Dr. Frank fan

I heard this theory too but it was several days earlier by a caller on a talk radio program. The talk show host was not too knowledgeable because there is a simple question to ask when one scans a document and applies OCR (optical character recognition) and that is, why? For the purposes of electronic filing one would scan a document as a picture image or a fax. One would only apply OCR if one intended to modify, manipulate, edit, or otherwise, change the document. No one uses OCR for archiving such documents. So, when you and others hear about OCR just ask, why? Then tell them, all OCR proves is that the documents were indeed corrupted by the process, period.


132 posted on 09/18/2004 6:53:20 AM PDT by Final Authority
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