I watched all four videos, and I’ll unequivocally call it what it is — a forgery. I’ve spent years writing software in the printing industry, much of it dealing with image manipulation. I’ve dealt with OCR, processing scanned documents, altering color depth, creating image files from scratch, etc. I’ve researched image manipulation algorithms and wrote quite a few specialized ones for issues ranging from resolution to color depth to text readability. This PDF did not get where it is by any automatic mechanism. It was pieced together by human hands much the same way that we used to do with X-Acto knives and tape back in the old days.
“Spurious. Not genuine. And it’s worth...f***-all”.
I have been saying the document was MANIPULATED since April 30. I held off 3 days before I accepted it as “true” to allow time for people to analyze it. Being manipulated does not make it FALSE, and I think Obama did it on purpose to screw with us.
Plus, there is something people who have examined this seem to have overlooked which kind of makes me think it is “manipulated”—but I am not a expert.
I spent a few days trying to reproduce anything near the anomalies present on that doc. You are quite correct that it cannot be done by any automatic mechanism.
There is one thing that absolutely proves intentional manipulation though, and that is the presence of cloned characters found in the doc.
BTW 30+ years prepress graphics pro.