Image Processing based forensic investigation of morphed documents

This being the age of digitization, the rates of cyber-crimes has been surging prodigiously. With people carrying their IDs around with them, one would think it would be difficult to pose as someone else in a public setting. However, it has been proven incredibly easy to create fake documents with powerful photo editing soft-wares being as pervasive as ever. Documents can be scanned and forged within minutes with the help of these soft-wares that have tools readily available just to do that. While photo manipulation software is handy and ubiquitous, there are also means to deftly investigate these morphed documents. This paper lays a foundation on investigation of digitally manipulated documents. No public databases have been used for analysis. The entire database used in this paper has been created solely for the purpose of studying the forensic investigation of illegal documents. Then, analysis was done on this self-created dataset using image processing algorithms and later, discriminatory results were studied.