ABSTRACT

Many of the problematic areas affecting handwriting identification have been challenged over the past few decades using advanced techniques in digital technology and electronic handwriting capturing devices and software. Handwriting identification research has benefited by the extensive medical research into handwriting movement disorders which has enabled handwriting experts to not only validate many of their methods and observations but also find quantitative methods for dynamic movement. Handwriting identification is no longer just about the way letters are formed; it is also about the fluency and rapidity in which letters are formed. Forensic handwriting examiners used to make estimates about speed, but now they have the tools to quantify speed and to validate the features of a fast or slow handwriting movement.