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To: Mr. K

Pdf docs usually do have layers. They aren’t static images like. Jpg files.
Look up OCR- optical character recognition. Acrobat pulls out the text and adds it on a separate layer so it can be searchable. I’ll post more on it when im not on my phone.


71 posted on 04/27/2011 11:57:43 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
Look up OCR- optical character recognition. Acrobat pulls out the text and adds it on a separate layer so it can be searchable.

Shhhh... someone might hear you.

78 posted on 04/27/2011 12:00:31 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: mnehring

A PDF of a scanned image starts with ONLY one layer- the image.

This one is made up of multiple layers


82 posted on 04/27/2011 12:03:32 PM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: mnehring

Dp they have white out


85 posted on 04/27/2011 12:04:34 PM PDT by mel (o fFR monthly...Do You?????)
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To: mnehring
If you are starting out with this...

It and the person creating it; is not official or offishal.

89 posted on 04/27/2011 12:05:31 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (If Obama announced his resignation that would probably bring gas to $2.30 within an hour.)
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To: mnehring
Pdf docs usually do have layers. They aren’t static images like. Jpg files. Look up OCR- optical character recognition. Acrobat pulls out the text and adds it on a separate layer so it can be searchable. I’ll post more on it when im not on my phone.

Your points are well taken. However:

1) When opened in other pdf editors these layers do not appear. The pdf appears as one single image.

2)If the text were to be searchable text it would be consistent text in one electronic font and would not be a combination of dark and light (edited) characters as shown in the examples. This is more editing at the pixel level and NOT at the character level. There is editing on the signatures also and they would NOT be OCRed.

So I don't think the OCR layer theory holds up under this evidence.

94 posted on 04/27/2011 12:08:46 PM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: mnehring

Note this, all


254 posted on 04/27/2011 3:13:34 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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