The VeriPic system contains a great deal of advanced imaging technology that will save you time and money. An example of such technology is the fact that VeriPic can display up to 1,000 thumbnails per second compared to the industry standard 2 to 4 per second. An average user wastes 20 minutes per work day waiting for thumbnails to load using other software systems. This is a whopping 87 work hours wasted each year. It costs your organization $3,480 per worker per year assuming a loaded labor cost of $40 per hour. Purchasing VeriPic will save you money and increase productivity over and over.

This was just one example of how VeriPic can save you money. You can contact our customer relations department if you wish a detailed analysis of how a VeriPic system can reduce your actual cost of photography and pay for itself over and over.

RMS systems (commonly known as Records Management Software) typically store photos as "BLOB" data in an SQL database. Such databases have a 32 bit address space which limits total data storage to 2 GB. Since an average digital photo is 500 K to 1 MB in size this means that when you reach 2,000 to 4,000 photos your RMS system will MAX out. You won't be able to add more photos and keep them live on the hard disk.

RMS systems weren't designed for high volume, high speed photo storage and retrieval. VeriPic, on the other hand, was specifically designed to do just that. VeriPic doesn't have an upper limit on the number of photos. VeriPic can keep on storing photos as long as you have available hard disk. For example, a 180 GB hard disk can store 360,000 digital photos of 500 K size, etc.

Our company has digital imaging patents in the U.S. and foreign countries. This demonstrates VeriPic's technological lead. None of the other three companies making high capacity digital photo management software holds patents. When evaluating software for professional use ask the company what patents they hold? That should tell you about the company's level of security and the quality of their software. After all, when you purchase software you are purchasing technology. Why not go with the best you can get?

You can make up your mind about this one. Keep in mind that many jurors know that the primary purpose for PhotoShop or other photo editors is to edit or make fake photos. Do you really want a juror to know you had used a tool intended to create fake photos on the photos you are bringing to court?

VeriPic works to enhance photos with tools that don't affect the photo's authenticity. All of VeriPic's tools are built in and all use a "display list" method that ensures the original photo is untouched to avoid authenticity challenges to the photo. You don't need to use a photo editor at all because the tools you need are already provided by VeriPic. This not only prevents you from liability exposure but also saves you money by not having to purchase a separate license for PhotoShop for each station.

Now, do you want to use a system that is dependent on Adobe PhotoShop to run or do you want to use VeriPic which is independent of PhotoShop?

VeriPic® is the ONLY software on the market that authenticates the photos from all brands of digital cameras by examining the photo itself for authenticity. If somebody tries to sell you some other software and claims to have authentication ask them about the following points. Competing software other companies sell falls into 2 categories.

1. One kind Secures the photo by making sure that once a photo is entered into their system it can't be changed. This isn't good enough because anyone can enter a falsified photo into the system at the start. There is no technology used to examine the photo itself and thus no assurance of authenticity. Sales people from these companies will call their method "authentication" but it is really only Securing of the photo. You will still need VeriPic® system on the front end to check for authenticity. (Call us for more information on systems that do Securing of photos if you're unsure.)

2. Another kind of software keeps History information on a photo (also known as History Tracking). What this software does is Secure a photo (see above definition) when it enters the system and then allows you to enhance the photo and save second, third or fourth, etc. copies of photos under different names. These companies will tell you that this History Tracking actually "authenticates" the photo because their software knows the history of the photo and the enhanced photos derived from the photo entered into their system. While this record keeping is nice (and the VeriPic® also happens to have this feature too!) this is not true authentication. Their system never examined the original photo entered into the system to know whether it was authentic. Anyone could have entered a fake photo into this system and it will claim this fake photo is authentic! You will still need VeriPic® system on History Tracking of photos if you're unsure.)

The VeriPic® software has both capabilities! Authentication is the process of examining a digital photo to look for signs of tampering. Encryption is the process of scrambling the data so that the photo can't be viewed when an unauthorized person tries to open it with any common photo software. Only a person with the right password can open and view this photo.

35 mm film is not as safe as a digital photo using VeriPic® software. There are machines called Digital Film Recorders that can take a digital photo and create 35 mm film negatives (up to an entire 36 exposure roll of negatives at a time). Since digital photos are easy to change, fake 35 mm film negatives are easy to produce.

It is true that CD-R's are not erasable (read only devices). It is possible to get fake photos onto a CD-R with the right date and time on the photo. If somebody wanted to do this he or she will first copy the authentic original photos onto a computer from the original CD-R and edit them with a photo editor program such as Adobe(R) PhotoShop or equivalent. The next step is to use a program such as Touch.exe (or many other commonly available no-cost programs that perform the same function) that can be used to set the photo date and time to whatever the user wants.

Next the user will burn a new CD-R with the modified photos and throw away the original. The result is a new CD-R filled with edited photos that have the right date and time. Giving somebody a CD-R does not prove authenticity.

VeriPic® examines the structure of the photo itself. It makes no difference if you copied a fake photo back onto the memory card because VeriPic® performs it's examination of the photo when you try to download the photo from the memory card. Both fake and real photos will be examined for signs of tampering at Import time.

Use of the VeriPic® system is much less expensive than using 35 mm film or digital cameras alone. Call our customer relations professionals at 408-496-1200. They can analyze your particular situation and show you how much money your department will save using digital cameras and VeriPic® software. Often the savings start immediately. The amount saved in the first 4 to 6 months alone often more than pays for the system, software and cameras. The savings are great enough that in many cases there is no need to seek any additional budget for a conversion to our system. VeriPic® might save you so much money that you have money left over at the end of the budget year even with your existing budget!

In the past average citizens and attorneys didn't know much about digital cameras and digital photos. As the public starts to use digital cameras themselves this will change. In 2 or 3 years members of the general public will be much more familiar with digital photos and will know that they are easily changed. Some of the photos you take today will take several years to come to trial. You would be better off using VeriPic® on the photos you take today so that your evidence photos are protected 3 years from now when the juries are more skeptical. Additionally 35 mm film is dangerous to use because of the existence of inexpensive Digital Film Recorders.