CASEWORKS provides an organization-wide infrastructure to manage, optimize and maintain all digital assets from the crime scene to the courtroom. It contains the best features of acquisition, comparative analysis, page layout and vector graphic software programs with the addition of a true forensic print engine.
CASEWORKS' Core Capabilities
• Client/Server Case Asset Management
• Security Controls
• Custom Reporting Tools
• Image Informatics Tools (Search/Reporting, Data Tracking and Retrieval)
• Digital Asset Storage (JPG, RAW, audio, video and pdf)
• Image Versioning, Verification and Meta Data Collection CASEWORKS Modules
• Comparative Analysis Module - for advanced markup and analysis
• Latent Print Workflow Module – for managing documentation and comparative analysis
• Mideo Photo Lab Kiosk - for easy download, session tracking and CD/DVD burning
• CASEWORKS' LIMS Connect Module - for seamless LIMS integration CASEWORKSeis Plug-in
• Adobe Photoshop CS2/3 Interface - to maintain history from Photoshop to CASEWORKS
Client/Server Case Digital Asset Management
CASEWORKS offers a flexible structure, configurable to your agency’s RDBMS and workflow needs. Features include: asset acquisition, tracking, authority settings, field set administration and naming policies. Compatible with Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and My-SQL, CASEWORKS' database links custom information to a user, folder, or individual file. Users can search this data to find relationships between assets that reside in different cases or across different years. Using these same tools, data can be divided into multiple folders and catalogs, each with independently customized security structures and naming conventions.
Security Controls
CASEWORKS maintains the integrity of all case related digital assets. User authority levels are flexible and can be configured to provide either group or user access rights. This makes it easy to set up and enforce agency policies without micro-management and constant user supervision. When an asset is imported into the database, CASEWORKS verifies that the imported item is the same as the item in the database using Hash sums. A complete set of administrative controls allow agency security policies to be set up and enforced. Control access at the group or user level or apply it to specific images or folders. Further, a comprehensive set of feature authorities allows administrators to specify features that individual groups or users can access. CASEWORKS tracks Image versions, automatically linking a modified image with its unalterable original, regardless of how many changes occur. Image history can be automatically printed or converted to a pdf file via built-in reports.
Custom Reporting Tools
CASEWORKS allows users to create an unlimited number and variety of reports. Users can build anything from a single image report to a detailed proof sheet. Users can setup reports to include the agency logo as well as any other collected asset information (i.e. date created/printed, user who created the image, case number, etc.) For latent print and other comparative analysis work, reports will automatically print calibrated images at a 1:1 scale once they are calibrated.
Advanced Image Informatics (Search/Retrieval)
With CASEWORKS, users can “mine” information for meaningful correlations in image information. Upon submission to the database, images and folders continuously generate and track history, field set and metadata information (department, time/date, photographer. etc.) that can be queried across cases, years, users or any other criteria. Various search functions are available. A search can be run against any of the following criteria: Name, Title, Notes, Creation Date Range, Modified Date Range, Custom field set data.
Comparative Analysis Module
The Comparative Analysis module provides extensive tools for those performing latent print, footwear, questioned documents, impression evidence, or any forensic comparison application. Tools include: 1:1 on-screen and print calibration, image enhancement/rotation, charting tools, measurement, overlay and transparency adjustments.
All of these tools are designed specifically for the forensic analyst/examiner. They are easy to use and require much less training/experience for performing the core functions than other professional-grade graphics programs. Users can quickly optimize images for comparison by using the crop, zoom and sizing tools, apply filters and markup and create court charts.