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Check out the actual directory. There’s a bunch of stuff in there including a cover image that does show up in the interface of Image Capture. In two minutes of testing I haven’t quite figured out where to click to get it to preview the Bitcoin white paper but decent chance they needed a “simple document” PDF for something at some point and it came down to “why not the Bitcoin white paper?”

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I mentioned it in my post: in Image Capture, select the “Virtual Scanner II” device if it exists, and in the Details, set the Media to “Document” and Media DPI to “72 DPI.” You should see the preview of the first page of the Bitcoin paper. But that's only possible if the virtual device exists, and it's still unclear why it's hidden for some people but not others.

Huh. So I had a "Virtual Scanner" but not "Virtual Scanner II" when I was seeing the Treasure Island picture as a preview, but then after like a minute of doing other stuff I went back to Image Capture and it was gone and I couldn't get it back.

I think this is for a unit test around scanned documents or something, given the rest of the directory's contents

Gotta fill up these non-user-replaceable/extendable hard drives somehow!

Another favorite of mine were the super-high-resolution touch pad gestures that the corresponding System Preferences pane would display in a loop to illustrate how to perform them. Must have been a few hundreds of megabytes at least.

> Gotta fill up these non-user-replaceable/extendable hard drives somehow!

I'm as cynical as the next guy, but if they wanted to fill up storage space, they wouldn't have picked a 184,292 byte pdf.

I was referring more to the other files in that directory that don’t even seem to be displayed in the UI and look more like leftover test data.

the cover.jpg file is cool, thanks for suggesting this

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