Report - Barack Obama: Long Form Birth Certificate

REPORT BARACK OBAMA: LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE Page 10 of 12Figure 23:Figure 24:Figure 25a:Double-click to openLink Information dialog boxScale Information:24% scale, Rotated -90°Link Information for Onaka stamp objectBackground Link Information dialog boxScale Information:48% scale, Rotated -90°Link Information background pattern objectDocument Font Propertiesof original PDF fileFont Properties of PDF fileFigure 25b:Similar to the Layers panel, the Links panel should only displayone link (if this was a normally scanned image). Multiple links arealso indicators of image manipulation since they reference objectsadded to the document (not part of the original document).Double-click any of the link items seen in the Links panel to displaya Link Information dialog box (for additional information).Figure 23 shows the Link Information for the Onaka stamp object.The important focus has to do with the scale information whichshows the object was scaled 24% and rotated -90°. Most of thelinks show similar scale information except for the backgroundpattern. Figure 24 shows the Link Information dialog box whichindicates the background pattern object has been scaled at 48%(instead of 24%). Again, this inconsistency is another indicator ofimage manipulation that refutes the OCR naysayer argument. Ifthe document is scanned, regardless of whether OCR softwarewas used or not, there is still a consistency in the scanning process(which is not present in this document). Items will not scale atdifferent sizes during a scan.The OCR Argument Explored FurtherOCR—which again stands for Optical Character Recognition—willscan a document for text and convert any images of text to livetext which can be edited. The text responds as if you were in aWord document. The text can be selected, changed, copied andpasted. If the PDF had been scanned using OCR software (as manyclaim); the document would also be able to search for keywords.In other words, when opening the PDF file, you would be able totype in a keyword in the find dialog box and the document wouldrecognize the word. This does not happen when opening Obama’sPDF file.Additionally, the properties dialog box would reflect which fontswere used in the document. Figure 25a reflects the Font Propertiesdialog box in Obama’s PDF certificate file. This can be viewed bygoing to the File menu > Properties, then click on the Font tab inthe Document Properties dialog box. As you can see, this dialog boxis empty indicating that the PDF file does not recognize any text.In contrast, fonts can be seen after the file was then processedthrough the OCR Text Recognition option in Acrobat (foundon the Document menu). Foranyone playing along, go to theDocument menu and select OCR TextRecognition, and then click RecognizeText Using OCR. Acrobat will thenperform a scan on the document andDocument Font Propertiesafter OCR Text RecognitionFont Properties dialog after OCR Text Recognitionconvert any text found in the image toeditable text.The Acrobat Find box is then ableto locate and recognize words in thedocument, but more importantly,Figure 25b shows that all the fontsrecognized during the process are nowlisted in the Font Properties dialog box.Interestingly enough, the file no longershows multiple layers in Illustrator,which also contradicts the claims madeby the naysayers.