The issue of hardcopy document forgery is still prevalent. In South Africa, a series of cases have been reported where academic documents are forged. This poses a problem of integrity, trust and authentication of hardcopy documents. Therefore, it is vital to have a system that could verify a hardcopy document and ensure that the integrity is maintained at all times. Techniques have been introduced to eliminate the issue of document forgery, namely; cryptographic hashing, 2D Barcodes, Digital Signatures and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In this paper, we present our proposed solution which comprises the 4 techniques. The first part of the implementation included the use of OCR and the experimental results yielded an accuracy of 100%. The experimental setup is described and the overall proposed solution. While this is on-going work, the experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution.
Reference:
Dlamini, N.P., Mthetwa, S.N. and Barbour, G.D. 2018. Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery. The International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communications Systems (icABCD) 2018, 6-7 August 2018, Durban, South Africa
Dlamini, N. P., Mthetwa, S. N., & Barbour, G. D. (2018). Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483
Dlamini, Nelisiwe P, Sthembile N Mthetwa, and Graham D Barbour. "Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483
Dlamini NP, Mthetwa SN, Barbour GD, Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483 .
Paper presented at the International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communications Systems (icABCD) 2018, 6-7 August 2018, Durban, South Africa
