some ideas from Corona Virus "Stay at Home" order

[Richard Kreiss]

Some insurance apps now allow one to photograph damage and sent it to them for an estimate of payment for damage.

One thing I do suggest is to photograph a rental car before leaving the lot.  This could be used for proof of any damage when the car is returned.  Yes, with the proper software and skill level, these photos could be manipulated. But in most cases it is not worth while and the average person does not have the skills.

On the other hand, if the vehicle is damaged, a photo of the damage could be used to keep the repair charges down.  You should keep track of what was damaged and where and know what if any insurance you might have and what it covers.  I had a car rental in Italy that specified that the rental agreement was only good for driving the car in Italy. Also, if the car was to be driven out of Italy8 one had to have all of the proper documentation necessary to cross a boarder (I know that these seem to be contradictory statements in the lease agreement).

Richard Kreiss



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> On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:44 PM
> To: Bruce Easton <bruce at stn.com>
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> Subject: Re: some ideas from Corona Virus "Stay at Home" order
> 
> Insurance photos is something I have thought about. Maybe for damage to a
> car.  Maybe before and after photos. Meaning you might need to verify
> geolocation and also date/time the photo was taken. Maybe even the direction
> the camera was pointing.
> 
> To "harden" the proof, you could embed the JPG photo (containing the GEOTAG,
> etc.) inside a PDF, which can then be certified (tied to a certificated individidual,
> tied to a validated date/time clock, encrypted, and password protected. When a
> certificate is applied to a PDF, that process hashes the entire PDF, so that
> contents within can not be changed. I think this could prove when and where the
> the picture was taken. I'm not sure what the mechanism could be for validating
> the date/time clock.
> 
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list wrote:
> 
> > One might be extracting that info from photos for insurance purposes
> > (i.e, homeowner's).  I think underwriters want to store the geotagging
> > info and not just store info like "more than five miles from the
> > ocean".  (Of course, I would think that info would be more readily
> > available from something other than a photo.)
> >
> > On 3/23/20 1:41 PM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
> >> On the topic of GPS coordinates: what use case can you think of for this?
> >> I've been aware of geotagging (an dother EXIF data) in photos and
> >> videos for years, and have written code to extract that data from the
> >> files, but have not come up with many use cases. Ideas?
> >>
> >> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sometimes I think of some neat things I've done over the years and
> >>> just feel like sharing.
> >>>
> >>> Here are a few: (linux OS)
> >>>
> >>> Merge PDFs into a single new PDF:
> >>> /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> >>> -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Extract Pages from a PDF:
> >>> i.e. page 1-4
> >>> /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=1
> >>> -dLastPage=4 -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Extract Pages from page # to end:
> >>> /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=2
> >>> -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Get the numbers of pages in a PDF:
> >>> /usr/bin/pdfinfo file1.pdf | grep "Pages:" | sed s/"Pages:"//g | sed s/"
> >>> "//g
> >>> i.e.
> >>> 8
> >>>
> >>> Get the Lat/Long from a JPG image:
> >>> exiftool -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude file2.JPG i.e.
> >>> GPS Latitude                    : 31.4998652777778 GPS Longitude
> >>> : -100.448014444444
> >>>
> >>> I hope someone finds this useful.
> >>>
> >>> Be safe out there,
> >>>
> >>> Richard D. Williams
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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