Abstract: We describe a technique for authenticating printed and scanned text documents. This technique works by modeling the degradation in a document caused by printing. The resulting printer profile is then used to detect inconsistencies across a document, and for ballistic purposes – that of linking a document to a printer.

@inproceedings{kee-farid08,
  url          = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/publications/acm08.pdf},
  booktitle    = {ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop},
  author       = {Eric Kee and Hany Farid},
  year         = {2008},
  title        = {Printer profiling for forensics and ballistics},
  address      = {Oxford, UK},
}