Documents could be scanned by computer….

[ranosgol]

An AAR caller talks about this and I thought about this before. If anyone who has ever scanned a document into a PC using a flatbed scanner, then put into Microsoft Word it takes the data and puts it into a format Word understands. Thats is how the document looks like a Word document because it is, it's scan of the original. So unless you have the original paper there Is no way to prove or disprove.

[Joylaughter]

1. I'm not sure about that

When I scan in a document it appears as a photograph of the document and would be opened as a picture on my desktop not as a a word do so there would be no change in font face or otherwise except in generation loss.

[AmyStrange]

4. You can convert a photo to text and then imported into word...

possible. Used to work for a legal copy company that did that very thing with discovery docs. If any of the text didn't come out right you could edit it,

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[AmyStrange]

2. yup scanned and sent as a fax...

I've done it before when I sent out my resume in 1999,

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[indie_voter]

3. Well...

I do this all the time when I send faxes via my computer. It doesn't appear as a word doc though. I think it would still look like a hand written doc?

Also, if the docs were faxed from Kinko (has this been proven?) then why would scanning be necessary? Unless they faxed from a computer via Kinko.

If somebody had the original (hand written? Or typed? ) why use word recognition software?

I am sooo confused by all of this.

[AmyStrange]

6. they have copiers that are also scanners...

you bring to a computer (they rent computer time at kinkos) convert to text, import to word, edit for mistakes (not all text turns out right in OTC (sp) software, hand copy to the guy at the desk on a floppy and have them fax it,

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[indie_voter]

8. Understood

However, wouldn't it be easier to just fax the doc yourself using a stand alone fax machine? This way limited interaction with a third party and nobody but you sees what you are faxing.

[AmyStrange]

10. Not if you didn't want anyone to know where the fax came from...

kinkos offers a bit of anonimity and if you put it on a floppy and hand it to the guy (or gal) to fax this file, you can watch him (or her) just fax the file. It's not fool proof I admit, but it's a bit more anonymous then using your own fax machine...

just a thought,

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[xrepub]

5. 2 ways to scan

You can scan a document as if it were a picture (this is what copiers and fax machines do). You can also scan it into word using text recognition software. The second method would produce a word document that would then print out in whatever font you told it to.

[Protected]

7. OCR? (Optical Character Recognition)

No, I highly doubt that's what is going on here. If that was the case, why is the baseline on the documents floating all over the place? Plus the PDF files released by both USA Today and CBS News are clearly images of the documents, not textual representations of the contents of the documents.

[Joylaughter]

9. I agree with you

This was an image of the original.

[AmyStrange]

11. depends on the scanner...

and the ocr software, and the fax machine, but you make a good point

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