Hi! We hope you’re all staying warm and cozy out there. Our team has been hard at work making Longeye faster, smarter, and more reliable for you. In the last month, we’ve shipped over 200 improvements to the app, ranging from new features to performance improvements to bug fixes.

Mobile Device Forensics Made Easy

Cellebrite UFDR files are now supported. Upload forensic extractions from mobile devices and Longeye will now automatically parse all their contents into the Explorers, just like with ZIP files.

Better Transcription Quality

You'll now see quality warnings when Longeye is unable to confidently parse a transcript—so you know when to trust the AI transcription and when to listen to the original audio. We added detection for transcript gaps, as well as a fallback audio model, to improve the quality of our transcript coverage.

Image Metadata and Annotations

Photos now extract EXIF metadata when available, and display that GPS information on an interactive map:

• GPS location on an interactive map with accuracy radius

• Timestamp with timezone information

• Device make and model (iPhone 14, Pixel 8, etc.)

Images now also support tagging & comments, so you can group like images together, leave notes for yourself and your teammates, and export grouped images for your reports extremely easily.

More New Capabilities

• Word-by-word highlighting for audio and video. Words now highlight in real-time on the audio and video playbacks, making it much easier to follow along on transcripts. This even works while following the English translation of transcripts in other languages.

• Timestamp extraction from audio and video filenames. We added support for a bunch of new date formats found in the names of audio and video files. If your files have timestamps in their names, but we’re not yet extracting them, just let us know!

• Date filters for audios and videos. You can now filter to the specific time of occurrence for audio and video files.

• Relevance filters on every page. You can now filter by relevance in every single Explorer.

• Large PDF chat. We’re working hard to support chat and parsing for increasingly large PDFs. You can now chat with PDFs with thousands of pages, and we’re working to support PDFs with hundreds of thousands of pages as well and more.

• Increased support for Video and Image file formats. You can now browse HEIC image files directly in Longeye. We support playback for an increasing number of video formats and rendering for an increasing number of image formats.

• Files process sooner. Data ingestion will now start processing your files the moment we receive the first one, as opposed to the moment we finish receiving the batch. This gives you your first results in just minutes, even when uploading very large batches of data.

Bug Fixes that Mattered

We squashed many bugs that were blocking your workflows, particularly around loading complex file formats and very very large files. We gave a lot of TLC this month to our file transcripts, and made the transcript quality, playback, and citations all much more transparent for you.

What's Coming?

Some things that we’re particularly excited about in December include supporting increasingly large PDF files, image clustering around similar objects & people, and expanding the scope of chat to your entire case as opposed to individual files. Stay tuned for updates on these things and more in our next newsletter in January.

We hope you all enjoy a wonderful and peaceful holiday season. If you have any questions or feedback, don’t hesitate to reach our team at support@longeye.com.