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WinningInTheWest 2 points ago +2 / -0

What you do is you use kerning to place an r and an n so close together that they blend into one to appear to be an m. I opened the document and zoomed in as far as I could and then did a click-drag from the back of the m to the left and low-and-behold! It selected the n and didn't select the r next to it.

https://i.postimg.cc/s2m4JtYY/Corney.png

This is something you would do in the source document before you created the PDF file so you could hide his name from computer searches. Very tricky! But not tricky enough.

Look at the rn in the word government and compare it closely with the shape of the m right next to it. You can't really tell the difference between the two if you push the r right up next to the n so they slightly overlap.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/a5/ce/36a5ce5ea48318eb55ada5e62ede902d.png

The rn could have a -8 kerning value and make it look like an m quite easily with this particular font. As a typesetter for many years, I was an old hand at this trick and used to manually kern headlines to make them fit and look more natural. It's no big deal. So once you get the Corney correct you do a search and replace and all of them are now properly kerned to look like Comey.