Actually, you can scan a document as a text file, as opposed to an image. The words in the document are scanned as letters into some type of ASCII file (someone correct me on that if I'm wrong). That way you can actually work with the scanned text on a word processor.
That being said, scanning of a document with the intent of producing a text file generally alters the format of the original document, particularly if the document is old. Individual letters from a typewriter, most of which were probably a Courier font at the time they were typed, and which may be blurred on the original, could show up as anything in the scanned text file.
So where does that leave us? Text scanning will not correct military syntax, it will remove toner blemishes, and it will still require someone to reformat the translational blurbs which inevitably occur when scanning a typewriter document from the Vietnam era.
The scanning theory is utter BS......
The documents are fakes. They have Killian's purported signature but were generated on MS Word.