[KarlInOhio]

I just downloaded and ran "Some PDF Image Extract". It extracted 9 images from the Obama PDF.

Image 0 is the background with most of the text knocked out like you showed.
Image 1 was the main body of the PDF file stored as a monochrome image. Those letters still shown in full in Image 0 are missing from Image 1.
Image 2 was the registrar's signature block.
Image 3 was the APR 25 2011 date stamp.
Image 4 was part of the date stamp from block 22. The rest showed up in image 1.
Image 5 was the date stamp from block 20 missing the final 1 in the date, which showed up in image 1.
Image 6 was the letters "Non" from None in block 17a (the E showed up in image 1).
Image 7 was a 243x217 pixel region of somewhat random pixels. I can't tell the source.
Image 8 was a similar 132x142 pixel region.

It looks like rather than just scanning to a flat image with no processing, whoever scanned it created a multilayer file suitable for running an optical character recognition program. Here's a suggestion, White House. Scan at a high resolution to a TIF file with no compression, no sharpening/edge enhancement and no color correction. The file will be huge but it will help those looking for forgeries.

[TaxRelief]

Bookmarking this post.

Can you get screen grabs of this?

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

For the PDF illiterates out here, could you please translate your post? Are you saying it’s real or fake?

Thanks.

[KarlInOhio]

Here are the 9 images I found in the PDF file. They came out of "Some PDF Image Extract" http://www.somepdf.com/some-pdf-image-extract.html rotated 90 degrees and I decided not to modify them any further. I don't know if the jpg image is the original compression or if the extractor recompressed it. Also I didn't change images 1-8 which came up as white on black images.

There might be more image information in the PDF which I didn't extract, but this should give an indication of what is in the PDF file.

Image 0 is the background with most of the text knocked out like cyberaxe showed.

mage 1 was the main body of the PDF file stored as a monochrome image. Those letters still shown in full in Image 0 are missing from Image 1.

Image 2 was the registrar's signature block.

Image 3 was the APR 25 2011 date stamp.

Image 4 was part of the date stamp from block 22. The rest showed up in image 1.

Image 5 was the date stamp from block 20 missing the final 1 in the date, which showed up in image 1.

Image 6 was the letters "Non" from None in block 17a (the E showed up in image 1).

Image 7 was a 243x217 pixel region of somewhat random pixels. I can't tell the source.

Image 8 was a similar 132x142 pixel region.

[cyberaxe]

...haha, great idea...

...wouldn't hold my breath though...lol

[Adammon]

Bingo. I wish I could give you a gold star.

[Adammon]

One other note on that, I would suspect that the default for all government scanners is to have OCR turned on for easier filing. Doesn’t always work with documents like this though :)

Of course, now if they release a TIF file with no compression, it’ll be a conspiracy that they released the ‘obvious forgery’ with a ‘better forgery’. No win once again.

[GSWarrior]

What I find odd is that the WH released a pdf file instead of a jpg.