When people refer to electronic documents, they have MS Word documents in mind. But the truth is that there is a variety of other digital documents in this category. These include presentations (i.e. PowerPoint), email texts, HTML pages and any other document created with any available editor in the market.

In digital forensics, the examination of e-documents is one of the most important functions. A document (i.e. a .DOC) can provide the investigator with a wealth of information about the user who created the document, on which computer and what time, who and when amended the document, if it contained embedded elements such as photos, multimedia etc. Most of the information is found in the metadata part of the document.

E-document examination has lead in convictions of criminals in the past and is bound to be more and more a part of evidence given in court. A very famous case in the UK was that of a document related to the war in Iraq. It was a tragic mistake that Number 10 published a document in Word format allowing access to its metadata.

Please contact us to help you discover the hidden evidence inside suspicious documents or to help you protect yourselves from disclosing too much information to third parties.