I opened the PDF in Illustrator to see what the claim was, and I found what the guy in the video found—which is not what he says he found. There’s only one layer in the file. That layer does contain “groups,” but there aren’t multiple layers as he and so many others claim. To turn a layered Photoshop file into a single-layer, multiple-group Illustrator file like this would require a conscious choice (aside from the question of why anyone would take a scan into Illustrator before making a PDF in the first place—though someone will probably argue that they did it on purpose as a secret signal that the document is fake).
I also opened the file in Acrobat, by the way, and there aren’t any layers in the PDF in Acrobat.
I don’t know exactly what the explanation is. But I have seen boxes like that around the text areas when I’ve scanned something into OCR software before. The most logical explanation is that whoever did the scanning had Acrobat’s OCR turned on by default and the text boxes ended up visible in Illustrator.
well for sure none of us are experts, but we raised enough hell today that maybe someone that really knows what they are talking bout will look at this issue.
Till then tell your friend thanks.
>>I also opened the file in Acrobat, by the way, and there aren’t any layers in the PDF in Acrobat<<
Which Acrobat did you run it on? The reader or full blown Acrobat?
Why did they scan it as an OCR instead of an image file?