Explain the role of a forensic documents examiner in introducing documents in court

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Forensic document examiners, once referred to as "handwriting experts," compare handwriting exemplars with documents and form opinions on whether the two documents were made by the same person. They can also do comparisons of typed documents although modern manufacturing methods make it impossible to do this with the level of certainty that existed when individual companies made their own typebars and there were no interchangeable elements in typewriters.
A forensic document examiner can testify about tests done to determine if there have been alterations, erasures or obliterations on the documents. Tests can be performed to determine when the ink and/or paper were made, but it is not possible to determine when the document was written or typed.