The identification and analysis of documentary fraud is always a challenge for forensic science. Document analysis has proven to be an important branch of forensics in elucidating the authenticity of documents. The development and incorporation of luminescent inks in authentic documents have proved to be an excellent security feature. This paper purposes the use of a possible luminescent ink marker for anti-counterfeiting applications, aiming to create a document encoding process that is simple, robust, sensitive, and non-destructive. Since luminescent inks markers provide a visual, chemical, and spectral signature, and can be easily detected by using a UV lamp, the aid of unsupervised chemometric tools makes it possible to differentiate the luminescent markers inserted in the ink. Unsupervised models of principal component analysis (PCA) and K-mean were successful in correctly associating marked inks with their respective pure markers, while a supervised classification model based on partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) correctly classified all samples from the prediction set and the blind test samples. For comparison, a soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA) model was also built, which despite showing a misclassified sample it is also a strong candidate for future applications.
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