O.K. everyone. It seems that scanning software WILL break an document scan into different postscript elements, hence the various layers appearing in Acrobat, or various elements in Illustrator. I just did my own test on our copier at work which will scan a document and send it as a PDF. I scanned a printed version of my bus schedule and had it emailed to myself as a PDF. Opening the PDF in Illustrator allows me to move certain elements of the document around, despite the fact it is a scan of a printed document. As much as I’d like the layering and Illustrator elements be proof of a forgery, I’m afraid it’s a dead end.
Then explain to me the word “TXE” for “THE”
Sorry, but I STRONGLY disagree.
Here look at this,
BTW, moving the elements around is not the issue.
The issue is NOT about mixed and matched. I did not even try to move things around. It shows a CLEAR manipulation just by viewing it. You can see it when you zoom in.
Did it break apart the text elements from the background? Did it leave white blanked out areas that don’t match the sharpness of the black text that was lifted up? PDF scans might break up the scan (for compression purposes) but I don’t see how it would be smart enough to lift text and clean it up!