[Kleon]

Just so you know this excerpt from page 8 (pdf page 8) of your recently referenced document makes your point much better:

I noticed that, but you had previously asked for an example that was "obviously not text..."

Still, I think there's something strange about these bookscans. I'm hoping you will find an example of an actual document scan for me.

I don't see any technical reason why it would be different. The reason I used books rather than something like a birth certificate is that there aren't a lot of examples of the latter on the Internet, and probably even fewer that would have been scanned using a process that would produce the kind of pixelation found on Obama's birth certificate. I'll admit that the way it was scanned is unusual for a document of that type, but I wouldn't call that evidence for fraud.

[ml/nj]

I've thought some more about these bookscans. I think that even though the copyright on the original material has expired, the scan itself is the property of whoever produced it. Copyright notices and watermarks are nice, but scattered digital irregularities might also be useful in proving that someone has lifted another's effort.

ML/NJ