Forensic Document Examination is a subset field of the Forensic Sciences and is principally concerned with fraud related matters, however is often of use to other investigations.

As the name implies, Forensic Document Examination involves the examination of documents for evidence of construction, alterations, authorship or source. It is the only branch of the Forensic Sciences that can, in the appropriate circumstances, identify a suspect as the source of particular evidence, to the exclusion of all others. This evidence can be opinion and physical in nature. 

Articles for examination typically involve paper documents, but can include all manner of objects, large or small. Documents normally consist of: