Crappy microfilm + too much JPEG compression = the incomprehensible win 
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FOIA means they have to give you the document, but it doesn't mean they have to scan it correctly. Holy JPEG artifacts, Batman...pic.twitter.com/zV9DHYuw5q
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I feel like some CS student in computer vision should be able to write some kind of neural network that can squint at this instead of me.
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MIght have been the copy they scanned.
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The microfilm copy ain't great to begin with but it's not helped by the fact that they overzealously applied lossy compression to the PDF
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Sure thing... and you can probably tell that better on your end. I got a request back yesterday and was thankful to have 500 clear pages
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Then there's the popular 2-bit (B/W "line art") scans common in FOIA docs, to save drive space. I had many laughs over their bad scans game.
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Illegible primary sources, the bane of every historian :(
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