Forensic media analysis with AI
Sinabis Explorer indexes images, videos, audio and documents on a storage device and classifies them locally with AI. Flagged material comes first, sorted by confidence. Free and fully offline.
- Free, ad-free and without registration
- €0
- No file, no hash and no metadata ever leaves the device
- Offline
- Forensic images directly, plus drives over USB and SATA
- AD1, E01
- Every classification carries a score, the surest hits first
- Confidence
Thousands of images, only a few that matter.
And someone has to look at each one.A seized hard drive or USB stick quickly holds tens of thousands of photos and videos. In investigations into child sexual abuse material, but also in fraud, extortion or threat cases, the decisive material is often a tiny fraction of that. The rest is holiday pictures, screenshots and advertising graphics.
Reviewing such collections by hand takes days and puts a heavy psychological burden on the people doing it, especially with distressing material. At the same time, the cloud is out of the question. Neither content nor hashes nor metadata may go to third-party services in these cases.
This is where Explorer comes in. The AI runs on the workstation itself, sorts media into categories and highlights what is very likely to be incriminating. Previews of flagged files are shown obscured to protect victims. For analysing communication and documents in the same case, there is eDiscovery.
What Explorer finds on a storage device.
Six tools for large media collections.- 01
AI detection
Every image and every video is checked, and harmful or explicit content is flagged with a confidence score. The list starts with the surest hits.
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Automatic categories
Images, videos, audio files and documents are separated, and image content is classified into people, objects, animals and documents. Neutral material can be hidden.
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Prompt filter
Describe in your own words what you are looking for, such as photos of handwritten notes with numbers. Explorer turns that into a filter for this case.
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Protected previews
Material flagged as incriminating is shown obscured. That protects victims and relieves everyone who works with the data.
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Any data source
External hard drives and USB sticks directly over USB or SATA, forensic images in AD1 and E01. A drive is searchable within a few minutes.
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Runs on your own computer
Indexing and classification run locally on Windows 10, Windows 11 or Linux. No internet connection is needed, and a graphics card with CUDA speeds up the analysis.
826 media files, eleven of them flagged.
A storage device after the scan in Explorer.Explorer has fully indexed the storage device and classified every file on the computer itself. 815 media files count as neutral, eleven were recognised as explicit by the AI and highlighted in the sidebar.
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Neutral and explicit
The first group separates unremarkable material from what should be reviewed first.
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Categories
127 images with people, 175 with objects and 60 with animals can each be opened on their own.
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One search field
A field above the view searches all 826 media files on the device.
A few steps to what matters.
Connect, let it classify, review.- 01
Connect
Attach a drive over USB or SATA or load a forensic image in AD1 or E01. For original evidence drives we recommend a hardware write blocker so that nothing is written to the exhibit.
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Scan and classify
Explorer indexes every media file and classifies it with AI, directly on the device. It shows continuously how many files have already been processed.
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Filter and review
Jump straight to flagged material, browse the categories or set a prompt filter. Everything stays on the computer that runs Explorer.
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Continue in the case
If the media belong to a larger case, we process them together with emails and documents. We take care of the forensic data processing and provide everything in Inspector.
What Explorer delivers.
On your own workstation, without a contract.Explorer is a standalone program. You download it, install it and start working right away, without registration and without an account with us.
- Overview
- All media on a driveSeparated by type into images, videos, audio and documents.
- Flags
- Incriminating material firstWith a confidence score, previews obscured.
- Categories
- People, objects, animals, documentsNeutral material can be hidden.
- Filters
- Your own prompt filtersA description in natural language instead of a keyword.
- Systems
- Windows 10 and 11, LinuxInstaller as .exe for Windows and as .deb for Ubuntu and Debian.
Built for sensitive investigations.
Not for the photo library.- 01
Nothing leaves the device
No file, no hash and no metadata is sent to a server. Explorer works without an internet connection, even in isolated networks.
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Protection for reviewers
Incriminating material is flagged and only shown obscured. That way people need to actually look at such images less often.
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Free for everyone
Police, companies, NGOs and researchers use the same program. There are no fees and no ads.
Questions about media analysis.
About Explorer and its AI.Your question is not listed? Write to us.
No. You download Explorer without registration and use it without fees and without ads. Costs only arise if you additionally commission us to process a case.
Every classification carries a confidence score, and the list is sorted by it. The AI pre-sorts, it does not decide. Whether material is relevant under criminal law is assessed by the investigators themselves.
If you connect original evidence drives directly, yes. A hardware write blocker prevents data from being written to the exhibit while it is read. Images in AD1 or E01 do not need one. A NIST-tested SATA write blocker is available on sinabis.com.
A computer running Windows 10, Windows 11 or a Debian-based Linux such as Ubuntu. A graphics card with CUDA support is not required, but it speeds up the classification of large collections considerably.
Yes. Videos are checked and classified like images, and audio files and documents appear in their own categories. The entire media collection of a drive can therefore be searched in one place.
It was developed primarily for that, but it is useful far beyond. With the prompt filter you can find entirely different subjects too, such as photographed documents in a fraud case.
Next in the case.
When more than media needs to be analysed.Got a case on your desk?
Describe data volume, sources and deadline. Within one business day you get an assessment of process and effort.The people behind Explorer, Inspector and Tracer. Your enquiry goes straight to us in Bad Soden am Taunus.
