Guide
The guide is in the software.
The analyst manual is kept in one place: inside VERA (F1). This page says how to open it and what it covers, without describing internal mechanisms.
Open the guide
In VERA, press F1, or the book icon in the bar. The language follows Settings.
The same content is what the assistant can cite when it explains a view. There is no second guide on this site, so the two cannot drift apart.
What the guide covers
Cases and seals, importing an extraction, views (messages, media, map, calls…), search, the assistant, examiner-validated mappings, and settings (including offline maps).
One installer. The licence key opens the software. AI can run on the workstation, on the service server, or at VERA Forensics (account, consent, credits). Server installation is read in the account.
Get the software
Request access. After approval, the VERA installer appears in the account. Links are personal and last ten minutes. Windows may show SmartScreen: More info, then Run anyway.
The installer does not include a world basemap. In the account: Software → Offline maps, download a .mbtiles file, then in VERA: gear → Settings → Map → Import a local file. Without that file, traces with coordinates still appear on an empty Map view.
What changes from one version to the next
The changes that matter to examiners are written up version by version on the What's new page. The guide inside VERA follows the version installed on the workstation.
See it running on a real extraction
Usually thirty minutes on a video call, on fictitious data. On site if you need it, or a conversation first. If VERA does not fit what your service needs, that is a useful answer too.
Every request is reviewed before access is granted.