Sunday, October 7, 2018

Questioned Documents: Tools Used in Questioned Document Analysis

The most significant tool of a document examiner is his or her vision. In addition to this tool, the outer tools which facilitate the examiner to see, evaluate and record more than is evident to the unaided eye. The microscope is the instrument that makes it possible to see physical evidence on documents which would otherwise remain invisible and useless. The normal unaided human eye can differentiate only 250 separate lines to the inch. This means that the small details which involve proportions or separations of less than 1/250th of an inch are not seen by the eye, and sees them as a connected, solid mass. These tools can be grouped into six categories:
1. Basic measuring tools
2. Magnification (magnifiers/ microscopes)
3. Light Sources
4. Special Instruments
5. Photography
6. Computer

Let us learn about these tools in the given video lecture.

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