Verification of Vehicle Mileage Using Captured Images

A computer-implemented method for reducing fraud by remotely verifying odometer mileage of a vehicle comprising:

• using a portable computing device and a tamperproof photo capture algorithm to (a) capture a first image of the vehicle's odometer and (b) capture a second image of the vehicle's identity number (VIN);
• using an interface of the portable computing device to display the first image to a user and receive from the user a manually entered odometer reading viewed in the first image;
• uploading the first image, the second image, and the manually entered odometer reading from the portable computing device to a remote server;
• using a recognition algorithm to extract (i) an odometer reading from the first image and (ii) a VIN from the second image;
• generating a confidence value representing a likelihood of authenticity of the vehicle's current odometer value by (i) comparing the extracted odometer reading to the manually entered odometer reading, an (ii) analyzing data associated with the first image and the portable computing device;
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• using the uploaded first image, the uploaded second image, the manually entered odometer reading, extracted VIN, and the confidence value to verify the odometer mileage of the vehicle.