Automatic Line Orientation Measurement for Questioned Document Examination

  • Authors:
  • Joost Beusekom;Faisal Shafait;Thomas Breuel

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany;Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IWCF '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Forensics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In questioned document examination many different problems arise: documents can be forged or altered, signatures can be counterfeited, etc. When experts attempt to identify such forgeries manually, they use among others line orientation as a feature. This paper describes an automatic mean for measuring the line justification and helping the specialist to find suspicious lines. The goal is to use this method as one of several screening tools for scanning large document collections for the potential presence of forgeries. This method extracts the text-lines, measures their orientation angle and decides the validity of these measured angles based on previously trained parameters.