Saturday, April 30, 2011

Video: Birth Certificate OCR Theory Debunked

The following video debunks the theory put forward in a Fox News article by Jana Winter.  They report that the layers which appear in the pdf birth certificate could have been created if the document was scanned using OCR (optical character recognition) software.  In the first place, OCR is software that is used to convert images files so the document's text can be searched and edited.  Second, as the video below illustrates, there are nine different layers within this man-made document. Each layer was manipulated in various ways. For example, some text boxes were rotated 90 degrees, others were resized, etc.  If OCR software had been used to scan the birth certificate, none of those actions would have been possible.

Wonder how much longer Barack Obama will be smirking at the American public.