[NeverEVERKerry]

I opened the BC again in Adobe Illustrator to get a good look at the last “1” in the certificate number and noticed something strange.

That digit is perfectly aligned to the top edge of the image/pdf whereas the other digits, “61 1064”, are not. If this is from some automatically incrementing stamp, why would that be?

Because of that finding, I then looked at other parts of the BC and noticed that there were many places where lines and characters are perfectly aligned to the top edge.

It is my understanding that this document was the result of being scanned/copied from a book (curled top left corner but bottom left not curled?) Then copied again onto security paper.

If that is the case, I want one of those copiers because it must have been aligned by someone from NASA. I have never seen a copier/scanner perfectly align anything put onto the glass.

[Gene Eric]

Sample that last digit like the preceding OCR characters and I doubt you’ll get the downward hook shown on the other sampled 1 digits.

[Fresh Wind]

That digit is perfectly aligned to the top edge of the image/pdf whereas the other digits, “61 1064”, are not. If this is from some automatically incrementing stamp, why would that be?

Just a guess-the final "1" was created using the Photoshop text tool?

I continue to be puzzled by the claim that the supposed OCR software that separated the "61 1064" from the rest of the document couldn't deal with the final "1", which appears to be well formed and distinct. There's something very suspicious about all this.