When a plate matters, you usually have to give the sighting to someone: an HOA board, an insurer, a police report. Screenshotting the app and cropping in Paint is a bad look and loses half the context. So the desktop client now exports any single sighting as a clean, one-page PDF.
What's on the page
- The plate, front and center.
- The sighting time, in a timezone you pick (so the report reads correctly for
whoever receives it, not just for your server).
- The camera it came from.
- Both images: the full frame for context and the tight plate crop for
legibility.
- A recent-sightings dossier: a short list of that plate's other recent
appearances, so a single frame becomes a pattern ("seen here four times this week").
If the plate is on your watchlist, the report leads with a red watchlist banner, so the person reading it knows at a glance this was a flagged plate, not a random passer-by.
Why a PDF, and why on the desktop
A PDF is the format every external party already accepts. It saves or shares through the normal system dialog, so you attach it to an email or hand it over without Crumb needing to know anything about the recipient. And it's a desktop feature because the desktop client is the investigation surface: it's where you're already looking at the plate database when you decide a sighting is worth reporting.
The images on the report come from the same authenticated sources as everywhere else in Crumb. No footage or metadata is uploaded anywhere to generate it; the PDF is built locally and stays yours until you choose to send it.
Available now in the desktop client. See the LPR docs for the full field list.