Publications by authors named "Ana Cristina Assis"

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  • The study simulated a suspected forgery of a three-page real estate rental agreement to understand how much reliable information can be extracted from a single piece of evidence and to identify effective techniques for forgery detection.
  • Seventeen laboratories from sixteen countries were tasked with answering questions related to the document's printing techniques, paper consistency, staples, ink, and the age of the headings and signatures.
  • Various methods, including spectroscopic and imaging techniques, were assessed, revealing that no single method could completely solve all tasks, with correct results predominantly found in the discrimination of printer toners but errors occurring with ink distinctions.
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