Dlamini, Nelisiwe PMthetwa, Sthembile NBarbour, Graham D2018-10-232018-10-232018-08Dlamini, 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 Africahttp://icabcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/icABCD-2018-Conference-Programme-6-7-August-2018-Durban-South-Africa-SUBJECT-TO-CHANGES.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483Paper presented at the International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communications Systems (icABCD) 2018, 6-7 August 2018, Durban, South AfricaThe 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.enDocument integrity2D barcodesOptical character recognitionOCRTesseractCryptographic hashingDigital signaturesSecure hash algorithmSHA-256Document generationDocument validationConference PresentationDlamini, N. P., Mthetwa, S. N., & Barbour, G. D. (2018). Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483Dlamini, Nelisiwe P, Sthembile N Mthetwa, and Graham D Barbour. "Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483Dlamini NP, Mthetwa SN, Barbour GD, Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Dlamini, Nelisiwe P AU - Mthetwa, Sthembile N AU - Barbour, Graham D AB - 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. DA - 2018-08 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Document integrity KW - 2D barcodes KW - Optical character recognition KW - OCR KW - Tesseract KW - Cryptographic hashing KW - Digital signatures KW - Secure hash algorithm KW - SHA-256 KW - Document generation KW - Document validation LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2018 T1 - Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery TI - Mitigating the challenge of hardcopy document forgery UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10483 ER -