President Obama’s Birth Certificate PDF has “Layers”

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[Mr. K]

When viewing the PDF in Adobe the text can be removed and added in Layers

You can compress all layers down to one, but someone clearly did not do that last step to make a good forgery

[paulycy]

Nordyke has KM&GH too.

Well, if we're using nordyke as a reference then that settles that. Thanks.

[RWGinger]

“The “hospital name” angle is moot.”

Yes that was My point , the hospital name is not an issue as the hospital had the same name until 1978 when it was merged with the childrens hospital and changed to kapiolano medical center.

[brytlea]

Juan Williams right now is on Shep’s show saying it’s all racial...

[matt1234]

On the left hand image, note the two empty boxes. One is at the top of the sheet, the other near the lower, left corner. If you open the BC released today and zoom to 800%, you'll see clusters of small white blotches in the same locations as these empty boxes. These small white blotches do NOT appear anywhere else in the margins.

Questions:

1. Are these blotches indicative of something being removed from the BC? (Back in my software days, I "whited out" unwanted parts of images, so I know it can be done.)

2. If so, what was removed?

3. Was an official seal was removed from the lower left corner where the empty box is? If not, why is the "APR 25 2011" stamp floating in space by itself? Why would the short form have an official seal while the long form does not? If the official seal is removed, is the document legally viable?

[Sir Napsalot]

Indeed.

/not that I am a birth certificate nor pdf expert

[mojitojoe]

Well if that is the case then the Nordyke twins BC is fake too.

[kcvl]

[KarlInOhio]

For what it’s worth, the capital “O” in both instances of the word “Oahu” is slightly elevated. Whereas the capital “O” in both instances of “OBAMA” is not elevated. The rest of the letters are not of the same case in both words, but still, it is interesting.

That's what happens when you don't press down the shift key on your manual typewriter all the way, as shown by the annoying number of red circles on my papers in typing class. The typist likely hit caps lock to type the name.

[PowerPro]

Another possible angle:

“Nothing to see here - this is the sort of output you’d expect to find if you use ‘Optimize Scanned PDF’ in Acrobat. It slices the large image up to save on bandwidth.”

I’ve not experienced this myself so I’ll take this comment I saw over at NRO at face value and ask if any of you all have a similar experience.

I’m not sure how it explains the clipping paths though...

[mojitojoe]

I really don’t think that matters. It’s possible back then that they just put down the information given to them by Gramps or Toot... oops sorry, Stanley Ann. /s

[Red Steel]

Ha! Link already gone. The scrubbing has started.

Too late. We know the game! :-)

[Mr. K]

Does anyone have a copy of the PDF issued this morning?

Besides the layers, the file itself will have embedded HIDDEN information that you can not see inside photoshop.

It contains the codes that describe the document and the layers and tells the software how to display the image on screen.

The codes and symobls and hidden text that you dont see on-screen also contain file data that might be interesting

Anyone have a binary file viewer? Let’s see what some of that hidden binary data says

[Jeff Winston]

IN that case, the Nordyke twins’ certificates must be fake, too, because they list the exact same name for the hospital.

[brytlea]

Well, what does THAT mean?!

[GunRunner]

So the White House forged the birth certificate in a grand conspiracy and forgot to merge the layers?

I don't know why the OCR failed on a few letters. Maybe it's an older version, the settings were jacked up, or there were goblins in the scanner. But the layered images opened in Illustrator look like what happens when OCR is turned on.

Why does the background have artifacts from the text? If this is a truly doctored Photoshop job then why isn't the green background completely static and free of any semblance of typed or written letters? That's what backgrounds look like when Acrobat tries to separate the different layers including the OCR layer.

[CMAC51]

Magnify the PDF to its maximum. Look at the doctors signature. Compare it to the date. The digital blocks for the signature are twice the width and height of the digital blocks of the date.

Do the same for the mothers signature. The digital blocks for "(Stanley) Ann D" are one size the blocks for "unham Obabma" are again half the width and height.

Check out the signture of the local registrar. The overall signature is the larger blocks except the seond charater which has the half size blocks.

This can't happen in a single document. The document is composed of material from sources of different resolution.

If you have photoshop, import it at 1200 dpi and the the photoshop grid and addtional magnification will make the differences even more apparent.

[Deo volente]

On Obama’s (alleged) certificate, why are the O’s in “Oahu” (two instances) raised and the O’s in “OBAMA” (three times) not raised?

[sten]

a proper long form would be a scan. a scan is a single image. there are no layers.

since there are layers, this pdf is a generated file.

obviously, they couldn’t trust just anyone and had to use people in their inner circle to generate the pdf. the person they chose just didn’t understand how to remove the layers so it would not be recoverable.

obvious forgery.

as he is putting this out as a valid document... he is attempting to commit fraud.

[Rio]

Could these layers not be due to text recognition capabilities of the scanning software used?

[Salamander]

Thanks!!!