Abstract: Forensic method for identifying forged documents. For each of a stream of incoming jpeg images, using a processor configured for determining whether jpeg image/s is a replacement forgery by determining whether a first portion of individual image which resides at a known location (known likely to be replaced by forger) within the individual jpeg image has been replaced, including: indicator, face-djpg, for the first portion at known location; computing indicator, aka nonface-djpg, for a second portion of individual image which resides at a comparison location within the jpeg image known as unlikely to be replaced by a forger; and determining whether face-djpg and nonface-djpg fulfill predetermined logical criterion and deciding whether the individual jpeg image is a replacement forgery accordingly.

Abstract: A system for computerized authentication of a laminated object, the system comprising a digital medium storing a digital image of at least a portion of the laminated object in a computer-implemented memory; a shininess analyzer operative, using a processor, to generate shininess data quantifying shininess of the digital image; and a parameterized computerized authentication sub-system operative to differentially perform at least one laminated object authentication operation based on the shininess data.

Abstract: A system for computerized authentication of a laminated object, the system comprising a digital medium storing a digital image of at least a portion of the laminated object in a computer-implemented memory; a shininess analyzer operative, using a processor, to generate shininess data quantifying shininess of the digital image; and a parameterized computerized authentication sub-system operative to differentially perform at least one laminated object authentication operation based on the shininess data.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A document forgery detection method comprising using at least one processor for providing at least one histogram of gray level values occurring in at least a portion of at least one channel of an image assumed to represent a document including text, the histogram having been generated by image processing at least a portion of at least one channel of an image assumed to represent a document including text, the image having been sent by a remote end user to an online service over a computer network, evaluating monotony of at least a portion of the at least one histogram; and determining whether the image is authentic or forged based on at least one output of the evaluating.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A system for computerized authentication of a laminated object, the system comprising a digital medium storing a digital image of at least a portion of the laminated object in a computer-implemented memory; a shininess analyzer operative, using a processor, to generate shininess data quantifying shininess of the digital image; and a parameterized computerized authentication sub-system operative to differentially perform at least one laminated object authentication operation based on the shininess data.

Abstract: A system for computerized authentication of a laminated object, the system comprising a digital medium storing a digital image of at least a portion of the laminated object in a computer-implemented memory; a shininess analyzer operative, using a processor, to generate shininess data quantifying shininess of the digital image; and a parameterized computerized authentication sub-system operative to differentially perform at least one laminated object authentication operation based on the shininess data.

Abstract: A scanned image authentication system employing at least one image authentication station which is unable to process scanned images which do not belong to at least one individual scanned image category, the system comprising a gateway image processor operative for on-line filtering of an incoming scanned image to determine whether or not the incoming scanned image belongs to the scanned image category, and a computer-implemented interface operative to transmit each individual scanned image to the at least one image authentication station only if the gateway image processor has determined that the individual scanned image belongs to the at least one individual scanned image category.

Abstract: A computerized document bearer authentication system operative in conjunction with a document bearer verifying functionality operative to check at least one aspect of a document bearing individual, the system comprising a computerized document authenticator operative to ascertain that a presented computerized document is valid including reading data from the computerized document and using a processor to find, within the data, validation information useful in ascertaining that the presented computerized document is valid; and a document bearer verifying functionality initiator operative to initiate operation of the document bearer verifying functionality including finding, within the data, bearer verification information useful in checking the at least one aspect and providing the verification information to the document bearer verifying functionality.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A system for computerized authentication of a laminated object, the system comprising a digital medium storing a digital image of at least a portion of the laminated object in a computer-implemented memory; a shininess analyzer operative, using a processor, to generate shininess data quantifying shininess of the digital image; and a parameterized computerized authentication sub-system operative to differentially perform at least one laminated object authentication operation based on the shininess data.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: Electronic document classification comprising providing training documents sorted into classes; linear programming including selecting inputs which maximize an output, given constraints on inputs, the output maximized being a difference between: a. first estimated probability that a document instance will be correctly classified, by a classifier corresponding to given inputs, as belonging to its own class, and b. second estimated probability that document instance will be classified, by the classifier, as not belonging to its own class; and classifying electronic document instances into classes, using a preferred classifier corresponding, to the inputs selected by the linear programming. A computerized electronic document forgery detection method provides training documents and uses a processor to select value-ranges of non-trivial parameters, such that selected values-range(s) of parameters are typical to an authentic document of given class, and atypical to a forged document of same class.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: Electronic document classification comprising providing training documents sorted into classes; linear programming including selecting inputs which maximize an output, given constraints on inputs, the output maximized being a difference between: a. first estimated probability that a document instance will be correctly classified, by a classifier corresponding to given inputs, as belonging to its own class, and b. second estimated probability that document instance will be classified, by the classifier, as not belonging to its own class; and classifying electronic document instances into classes, using a preferred classifier corresponding, to the inputs selected by the linear programming. A computerized electronic document forgery detection method provides training documents and uses a processor to select value-ranges of non-trivial parameters, such that selected values-range(s) of parameters are typical to an authentic document of given class, and atypical to a forged document of same class.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized document bearer authentication system operative in conjunction with a document bearer verifying functionality operative to check at least one aspect of a document bearing individual, the system comprising a computerized document authenticator operative to ascertain that a presented computerized document is valid including reading data from the computerized document and using a processor to find, within the data, validation information useful in ascertaining that the presented computerized document is valid; and a document bearer verifying functionality initiator operative to initiate operation of the document bearer verifying functionality including finding, within the data, bearer verification information useful in checking the at least one aspect and providing the verification information to the document bearer verifying functionality.