15. A document validation system, comprising: a processor; a scanning device configured to receive a certified document and generate a scan image of the certified document; and a non-transitory, computer-readable memory containing programming instructions that are configured to cause the processor to: receive the scan image of the certified document, analyze the scan image to identify one or more characteristics of, or document content in, the certified document access a repository of security templates and use the identified characteristics or document content to identify and retrieve, from the repository, a security template for the document, wherein the identified security template comprises one or more security element locations, receive a validation document via the scanning device, wherein the validation document comprises content that should appear at one or more of the security element locations, use the identified security template to identify the location of one or more security elements on the certified document that correspond to one or more of the security locations of the identified security template, apply the validation document to the identified security template to identify expected content that should appear on the certified document at the identified one or more security element locations on the certified document, analyze the scan image to identify actual content that appears on the certified document at the identified one or more security element locations on the certified document, determine whether the expected content matches the actual content, and output a report of the result.
15. A document validation system, comprising: a processor; a scanning device configured to receive a certified document and generate a scan image of the certified document; and a non-transitory, computer-readable memory containing programming instructions that are configured to cause the processor to: receive the scan image of the certified document, analyze the scan image to identify one or more characteristics of, or document content in, the certified document access a repository of security templates and use the identified characteristics or document content to identify and retrieve, from the repository, a security template for the document, wherein the identified security template comprises one or more security element locations, receive a validation document via the scanning device, wherein the validation document comprises content that should appear at one or more of the security element locations, use the identified security template to identify the location of one or more security elements on the certified document that correspond to one or more of the security locations of the identified security template, apply the validation document to the identified security template to identify expected content that should appear on the certified document at the identified one or more security element locations on the certified document, analyze the scan image to identify actual content that appears on the certified document at the identified one or more security element locations on the certified document, determine whether the expected content matches the actual content, and output a report of the result. 19. The system of claim 15 , wherein the instructions to apply the validation document to the identified security template to identify expected content that should appear on the certified document at the one or more security element locations on the certified document comprise instructions to extract descriptive material includes each of the security element locations on the certified document and content elements that should appear at each of the security element locations on the certified document.