Labels:text | letter | font | black and white | ink | document OCR: Hacking the IRS Criminal Lab Team By BillyBob Recently 1 came upon a newspaper article that in effect was propaganda for the IRS criminal forensic laboratory. In this article, a man named Thomas F. Bushing explained some methods his elite lab team uses to catch people trying to cheat the IRS. The part that interested me was the section on how the team analyses ink and paper to determine if the ink or paper was tampered with. Thomas explained that the team can tell the age of ink and paper by looking for certain chemicals that are manufactured in the paper and ink for the purposes of quality control. Hmmm, I thought, this elite lab has failed to mention something rather important. What if they don't have any ink to compare or paper to analyse ?? What do I mean by that? Well, if one makes a ...
