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Not true.
If you do an OCR scan, it converts to a document, as opposed to making an image.

But this is fairly new technology. It would mean the documents still exist..
So where are they..

Hey, wait a minute.
That's why the DNC is now going to flot this theory. That's why they had that hack Knox come out and claim that she tryped documents with the same content.

They are going to try a "do over" on the forged docs.
Look out for it.

I think what they are saying to us is they scanned the documents in 1992, using OCR technology, and then, years later, reformated the digital material back into a readable document.

So, let's review this ~ in 1969/70 I worked with an Israeli engineer who was working out the characteristics of the most common fonts to see what could be cranked into one of the OCR technologies invented by Rabinow.

By 1973 you could get an OCR from IBM (built by Control Data Corporation based on one of 5 Rabinow patented designs), that could "read" fairly well, but all the error-edits were garbage because computer processors were so slow. I recall very well a data collection document I designed as an OCR form that year.

No doubt Democrats in those days had better stuff than the United States Postal Service, eh?!

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cdc/histtimeline.html pretty well covers the IBM/CDC/Rabinow OCR history with short paragraphs.

Glad to see official corporate histories conform to my memory!

I really doubt Lt. Col. Burkett or Lt. Col. Killian had access to OCRs in 1972.

LOL...Scanning is the same thing as copying of faxing. It just takes a pic of the doc. It doesn't change spacing. What a maroon.

Actually, you can scan a document as a text file, as opposed to an image. The words in the document are scanned as letters into some type of ASCII file (someone correct me on that if I'm wrong). That way you can actually work with the scanned text on a word processor.

That being said, scanning of a document with the intent of producing a text file generally alters the format of the original document, particularly if the document is old. Individual letters from a typewriter, most of which were probably a Courier font at the time they were typed, and which may be blurred on the original, could show up as anything in the scanned text file.

So where does that leave us? Text scanning will not correct military syntax, it will remove toner blemishes, and it will still require someone to reformat the translational blurbs which inevitably occur when scanning a typewriter document from the Vietnam era.

The scanning theory is utter BS......