Forgery Detection of Documents: A Review in Digital Forensics

Abstract

The current technological age is witnessing a great revolution in the development of software applications. These applications are widely used for various purposes, especially digital documents processing. Several applications are available for general use as they allow creating and modifying documents digitally. In this context, there are many illegal aspects when using such applications. For instance, they can be used in unauthorized manipulation of official documents, which makes it a punishable crime by law. The science of digital forensics integrates the field of criminal and the computer science through providing several methods that can be followed for the purpose of detecting forgery or testing forged documents. This study conducted a survey of the latest methods used to detect forgery, which is of a great benefit to the investigators in the judiciary in general, as well as in the field of digital forensics in particular. This work reviews the most prominent advantages of each method that will be of benefit to researchers and workers in this field.

Keywords

• digital forensic؛ ؛forgery؛ ؛imitation؛ ؛؛
• ؛ ؛forgery detection