I clicked on the document, but I don’t know what it is telling me. Why is (for an example) a single “R” not redacted in the version you posted?
Thanks for posting that. I admit that it is odd. I really can’t explain it and especially why some letters are there while most are haloed.
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.
