[xmeejiwi] Altering scanned text

Create software that makes it easy to take an digital image with text and modify the text in it.  Detect and match font, synthesize and fill in small amounts of background as necessary.

Inspired by Facebook requiring someone to submit proof of their pseudonym.

Continuing the arms race: devise methods to print text onto objects so that the text is difficult to alter.  Difficult to synthesize backgrounds.  Difficult to match fonts.

Cryptographic signatures encoded as a bar code might work, though possibly tricky if multiple people conspire to help someone, including someone who actually has the fake name.