Document Examiner Forensics

Forensic Document Examination, as an established field of scientific study, began as a means of identifying forgery and establishing the authenticity of documents in dispute. It grew out of the need of the courts to be able to correctly evaluate document evidence. Document examiners can not only examine and identify signatures, handwriting, initials, and numbers but compare papers, inks, printing, facsimiles, photocopies, rubber stamps and holes made by a stapler or hole punch. Also, they can relate certain aspects regarding the health of that individual at the time of the document’s origin.