The Science of Document Integrity.

We offer full services for expert handwriting analysis, including forged or questioned signatures. As a forensic handwriting analysis experts, we offer you technically based reports on authenticity of the questioned handwriting analysis. In addition to traditional handwriting analysis techniques, we also offer scientific software analysis which provides the statistical probability of two signatures being the same or not.

Our Paper Forensics division provides industry-leading document examination services from court-qualified expert witnesses. We work closely with individuals, attorneys, and law enforcement agencies to identify ink and toner anomalies, paper sources, copy and paste signatures or text, and perform handwriting analysis on any disputed document. You'll receive a concise report of our scientific methods and findings.

We are paper scientists offering patent-pending technologies to analyze the paper from your document, uncovering anomalies and forensic evidence other document examiners are unaware of. We bring a scientific understanding to document forensics others simply can’t.

Patent pending methodology to verify the source of every page within a questioned document. Results are 99.7% accurate and repeatable. Our portable color spectrometer scans and measures the spectral optical properties of every sheet according to international standards. Then, we statistically analyze and compare the data using unique software to determine is all pages came from the same source or ream of paper. We can easily identify if any pages within a document were substituted.

What you need to provide your document examiner:

• Document type; Will, mortgage, agreement, etc.
• What is the alleged date of the document?
• Is it an original with wet ink signatures or a copy?
• Is it a PDF or photocopy?
• Do you have the document in possession?

Questioned Signatures

• Do you think the signatures are forged or altered?
• You should have as many known signatures of an individual as possible for comparison. We recommend 20-30, but at least 15.
• Get known signature examples from other documents, checks, or known writings.
• Get signature examples from around the same time period as the questioned document, also prior to and after the date of the questioned document.
• Documents with wet ink signatures are best.

Paper Examination

• We can date the paper of documents by comparing them to the paper from other documents with a known date, or by matching them to examples in our database.
• Original documents are necessary to date or compare the document to others from the same time period in order to determine if the document is authentic.
• We can match photocopies to other know sources of paper.
• We can match the paper from a questioned mortgage note to copies of your mortgage documents, they all came from the same paper source and should match.

Fraud involving legal documents cost Americans billions of dollars every year in lost business property and litigation costs. Your important documents are one of the most vulnerable assets you possess. For Instance, nobody ever thinks that a family member would every take your Will or Trust and change it, but it happens all the time.

Legal document fraud emotionally affects those victimized by it and each year in the United States those victims incur millions of dollars in legal fees and court costs in attempting to obtain redress.

Much of the fraudulent activity conducted on documents involves altered text and cut & paste signatures. It is important to hire a forensic document examiner who understands current technologies that are being used to alter documents. I know and understands these software programs and how to identify these alterations. Conducting forensic handwriting analysis, document dating and forensic paper analysis along with thorough understanding of various forgery techniques, then being able to explain them in scientific terms, is what makes a paper expert necessary.

Our firm has expertise in Paper Science & Engineering, Paper Manufacturing and have spent nearly 30 years working and consulting in the paper industry. We have the expertise in understanding how paper is made and what unique properties that can be identified in altered documents. There is an untold story of evidence ready to be uncovered within the paper of altered documents.

In addition, we have experience in Art and Color and its relationship to the optical properties of paper. Our development of ScanRite Paper ID Technology allows us to determine if any single page within a questioned document comes from a different manufactured source, allowing us to determine if it is a substituted sheet. We provide scientific, statistical analysis and reporting to provide conclusive evidence, not just an opinion.

One of the most difficult forensics analysis is identifying an altered PDF document. Many document examiners misdiagnose "cut & paste" text and signatures because they don't understand the lossy compression that happens when a document is converted to a PDF. 

We understand this technology and can properly identify an altered PDF.