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First, you file your court documents at the appropriate court. A lot of courts want them electronically and thus, you simply save from Word into PDF and upload. This is where a lot of people start looking stupid: "there's no OCR dummy, it gets uploaded as a PDF from Word!"

Yup, that's true. However, that's not where the OCR occurs. What is OCR anyway? Optical Character Recognition. OCR allows you to scan a document into a searchable PDF. It basically reads the characters and makes an editable document.

There's not a great way for common people to easily get federal court docs from courthouses. In walks PACER or the Public Access to Court Electronic Records. This is the antiquated system used to provide public access to federal court docs. You need an account and they charge fees. PACER's front end is a nightmare and the system isn't consolidated. This means people seeking documents need to know exactly where it was filed before they can even start paying $0.10/page for public information.

A lot of documents are put into PACER as scans or non-searchable PDF's. You may have submitted a nice PDF but your court actually uploaded it as a scan. This makes it super cumbersome in an already terrible system.

Court Listener is a site that's tried to change that. They're a free legal document search engine that basically scrapes for docs. Court Listener had the same problem as everyone else though, they would scrape PDF's that weren't searchable, which made them a nightmare to index.

Back in 2012, Court Listener decided to implement OCR. This would allow them to scrape screenshots from PACER of PDF's and then create OCR'd searchable PDF's in their search index.

Most people who produce these Trump court filings are getting their PDF's from Court Listener. Often times, since OCR is an imperfect technology and nobody is reviewing the scraping at Court Listener, documents riddled with errors are produced.

Like a lot of people have said, stop getting trapped in the noise and keep focused on the signal. These things are all meant to divert your attention from the real issue: election fraud.

Hopefully, this information helps settle the typo debate. This is a high-powered legal team. They didn't forget how to spell "District" correctly.

In any event, Word adds giant red squiggle lines under misspelled words. Do you really believe no one caught those?