What to do to make reports smaller?

As a forensic expert, who is working with the evidence and a lot of reports on daily basis you might find this article very useful. it brings you some tips which can makes your daily duties much easier.

Split the PDF report file to multiple files.

This feature helps you get the report results divided by sections, which give you a list of files named by contained data types or application's data. 

Each file includes bookmarks which helps you when you immediately decide to change the PDF file you want to view. See example picture, you are in the "Events" file, but you can simply open the      "Conversations" if you like.

Another benefit of splitting the PDF to multiple files is that you can simply copy the each file and use it separately. Each file contains not only bookmarks, but also the main report page with device info, device properties and table of contents.

Use filtering.

Filtering allows you to minimise content in the final report to the exact strings or time intervals which interests you the most.

The MOBILedit Forensic Express have two level filtering.

First is the filtering of the whole extraction.

You can combine the selections, for example you know the exact time interval and the text string, then you fill these as you need

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