OCR doesn't selectively make layers for the two most important signatures and three date stamps. Nor does OCR split the word Kansas and None in box 17.
There are separate OBJECTS, not necessarily ‘layers’.
Sir, do a little research on PDF’s. Layers that are created by scanner software do not conveniently select three of the date stamps or the two most important signatures.
Perhaps no information was removed, added or altered, but this document was definitely created and is not a direct scan to PDF.
The President's own Counsel, Bob Bauer said “We were advised that the long-form birth certificate could be copied and made available to us as early as Monday, April 25th — the day before yesterday. And we made arrangements for counsel to travel to Honolulu to pick it up and it was returned to the White House yesterday afternoon.”
Sounds like a hard copy. So why not just show the original hard copy compared to the PDF released?
The PDF from whitehouse.gov has mulitple objects but was not flattened. Three date stamps from Aug and April are separate objects. The doctor and registrar signatures are in a separate object. The word ‘None’ in box 17 has ‘Non’ on a separate object - you can see ‘e’ is a darker color.
Download a free copy of inkscape and open the file for yourself. Go to objects and click ‘ungroup’ several times. Then ‘select all’ and release the clip and masks.
This document was created, not scanned. It took about 30 seconds to deconstruct the document directly from whitehouse.gov