Gallery apps are a simple tool that are used to view, manage, and organize images and videos on mobile phones, PCs, or cloud services. Gallery apps are typically pre-installed on a mobile device, such as Apple Photos being pre-installed on all Apple devices. Some mobile users choose not to use the…
Similar Image Analysis Finds What Hashes Can’t
It is natural for a criminal to try to conceal their tracks. Oftentimes, they will manipulate a file to make it undetectable in the event of a hash search. However, while hashes don’t have the ability to locate files that have been changed, Similar Image Analysis can do that instantly.…
New Facial and Image Categorization Can Now Identify Faces Wearing Masks
At the end of last year, we released Oxygen Forensic® Detective v.13.2, an update that introduced critical enhancements to some of our most utilized features – Facial Categorization and Image Categorization. Oxygen Forensic Detective 13.3 takes these advancements a step further. Let’s see how… A need for Advancement In July,…
Making everything recognizable with new OCR module in Oxygen Forensic® Detective
What is OCR? Optical Character Recognition (OCR) automatically identifies typed, handwritten, or printed text located within an image and converts it into machine-encoded text. Whether it’s from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a screenshot of a conversation, or an image with subtitles, we can convert it. The…
Combating Global Corruption with Digital Forensics: Organized Crime
In a recent post, we took a look at the invaluable role that digital forensics can play in helping to combat global corruption in the business world, focusing in particular on the issue of workplace sexual harassment. However, as we noted in that original post, corruption is a pervasive problem…