[Noamie]

What is happening is that (in the overlapping copy areas) the OCR-trace prioritized the printed form "copy" first and treated the signature(s) as image. This is common in an OCR trace. Also, you'll notice that his mother's signature and the "Local Register's" is also half image and half bitmap. That's just an example of OCR limitations. This doesn't prove anything except that some idiot decided to scan this birth certificate using OCR-trace, but that is a common practice for government documents because it creates a smaller file. Check the "K" in Kansas. Same thing happening there, for example.

[Noamie]

I wrote above that it’s an OCR thing and I was going to post an example from another document with a background texture, but I can’t find an equivalent example.... so... I’m going to cover my butt and say that I’ve seen this happen before, but I’m having a really hard time digging up an example to prove it.

So I guess consider my above post as “opinion” until I can find an example of it happening in other docs.

[ml/nj]

This is common in an OCR trace.

I guess you didn't follow the link back to my first Big and Little Pixels post. If it's so common you should easily be able to come up with an example or two of other pdf documents that purport to be a single scan of a single document, that were posted to the Internet prior to April of this year.

ML/NJ

[jarofants]

A Newbie!!!