What is the difference between a handwriting examiner and a forensic document examiner?
A handwriting examiner is generally limited in expertise to comparing suspected handwriting or hand printing with known samples to determine authenticity of the questioned document. A questioned document examiner, or forensic document examiner considers many other aspects of a questioned document in addition to the questioned text. Some examples are paper folds, staple holes, inks, paper and erasures to name a few.
