Field capture
What the field saw, captured with proof.
A photo is only worth as much as what you can say about it: when it was taken, where, and whether it has been touched since. RoverDrop reads the capture time and GPS from each photo, lets a crew mark one up without ever altering the original, and takes a spoken note when a keyboard is not practical — all attached to the packet that carries the work back to the office.
No account or email needed for the demo.
A photo with no context is half a document
A crew takes two hundred photos in a day and sends the folder to the office. Weeks later someone needs to know when a specific one was shot, or where, or whether the version in the claim file is the same as what came off the phone. The answers are usually somewhere — in a caption a tech typed from memory, in a separate log, in a filename that may or may not be accurate — and reconciling them is exactly the work nobody has time for.
The reliable source for when and where a photo was taken is the photo itself, and the reliable version of it is the one nobody edited. Capturing both, at the moment the packet is put together, means the context travels with the file instead of being reconstructed later.
Four things the field can capture in the packet
None of these ask the crew to run a second app or fill out a second form. They happen while the packet is being put together, and the results are attached to it.
Capture time and GPS, from the photo
The time a photo was taken and, when the camera recorded it, the GPS position are read straight from the image file and shown on the packet. Not typed in later — read from what the camera actually stored.
Markup that keeps the original
Circle a defect, add an arrow or a note, and the marked-up version saves as a new file linked to the original. The untouched original stays exactly as it was shot, so nobody can say the evidence was edited.
A voice note when typing won't do
On a ladder, in gloves, in the rain, a spoken note beats a phone keyboard. Record one, attach it to the packet, and where transcription is enabled a text version is generated automatically.
Previews before downloading
The office sees photos as a thumbnail grid with a full-size viewer, and can preview images and PDFs in place, so triaging a packet does not mean downloading it first.
A firm that needs it can go further and require a device location on every packet, so a submission cannot be sent without recording where it was composed.
The original is never touched
Annotate freely, without editing the evidence
Markup is genuinely useful — an arrow to the crack, a box around the meter reading, a note for the office — but marking up evidence is a problem the moment the marked file becomes the only copy. RoverDrop resolves it by saving every annotation as a new file linked to the original. The original keeps its checksum and its place in the write-once archive, untouched, so you get the clarity of markup and the integrity of an unedited photo at the same time.
Where the photo is the record
In insurance restoration, the timestamp and location on a damage photo are what an adjuster asks for first. On a construction site, a marked-up photo of a defect, with the original preserved beside it, settles a lot of back-and-forth. In every case the captured photo is part of the same field-to-office file transfer record as everything else in the packet.
Read more on marking up site photos without altering the original and documenting restoration photos with capture time and GPS.
Related
- Write-once archiveWhere the untouched original photo is preserved.
- File intake for insurance restorationWhere photo time and place carry the most weight.
- Documenting restoration photos with capture time and GPSProving when and where a photo was taken.
- Mark up site photos without altering the originalAnnotation that preserves the evidence.
See it in motion
Capture a photo in the demo
Add a photo in the demo composer, see its capture time read from the file, mark it up, and watch the annotated copy save alongside the untouched original. No account or email required.