The problem CertificateForgeCheck solves

Certificate authenticity is a rising concern among all fields. Our project is a certificate authenticity verifier that checks whether the uploaded certificate is forged or authentic. We have built a full-stack application for issuing, managing, and verifying educational certificates using Ethereum blockchain hash check, and multiple layers of AI-powered forgery detection. Institutes can issue certificates that are permanently recorded on the Ethereum blockchain, making them immutable and globally verifiable, students can view their issued certificates, and verifiers can ensure authenticity using Blockchain or AI Forge Detection where we analyze PDFs for manipulation, layout inconsistencies, and authenticity markers.

-AI-Powered Forgery Detection:

• OCR text extraction
• Layout similarity analysis
• Logo/seal detection and matching
• Signature authenticity analysis
• Image tamper detection (ELA, clone detection)
• NLP content validation

Challenges we ran into

• Blockchain implementation in local that has access to original wallets through logins with wallet addresses.
• Building a full stack app with security and blockchain implementations in a day.
• Integrating so many different frameworks like react and tailwind for frontend to a python backend which has access to solidity for blockchain uploads.