[ctdonath2]

The 4 is poorly defined. No wonder the PCR software read it as a 1.

Such misreads are normal. OCR makes lots of mistakes.

[Red Steel]

Give it up. The 4 mask was stripped away revealing the 1 underneath. It’s game over about this being a forgery.

[Snidely Whiplash]

Such misreads are normal. OCR makes lots of mistakes. You ain't just whistling "Dixie," brother. A while back I had trouble with some real estate documents I wanted to email to a client. When I'd open the PDFs in Open Office Writer (a great, free MS-Office compatible program BTW), they would without fail be a mess, with alternate fonts, aliasing, duplicate layers of text in a different font, garbage characters...blah blah blah. Didn't look quite like the posted example, but close.

Turns out the scanner I was using to create said PDFs was scanning in OCR mode. Turned it off, fixed the problem.