This paper presents some research work that has been undertaken inthe area of software tools for forensic document analysis. The purposeof research into this area is to study the methods used by human expertsin the forensic analysis and examination of questioned hand-writtendocuments and to formulate computer tools to assist in this task. Thecomputer tools needed will require image processing and patternrecognition techniques. As part of this research a system for automaticidentification of the author of hand-written documents is beinginvestigated. Such systems usually attempt to match a questioneddocument to a known sample from a large database. It is hoped that byinvestigating methods that can be used to solve this problem it will bepossible to develop methods that will aid the document examiner in hiscomparison of questioned and known documents. An important set of toolsthat are being investigated help to extract global and local featuresfrom the questioned documents. These techniques are presented in thispaper
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