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S21 School Badge Lookup

Identify schools from imagery when a badge is the only lead.

S21 School Badge Lookup is an offline investigative tool that helps investigators search school badges, crests and uniform details from partial, low-quality or unclear imagery.

Search by school name, region, colours, symbols, wording or visual description to surface likely school matches faster - without relying on manual web searches or personal knowledge.
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The Problem

When a badge is the only lead, manual searching costs time.

Investigators may only have a partial crest, uniform detail, colour pattern or visible wording to work from. When school identification depends on web searches, informal knowledge or asking around, valuable time is lost at the point where early intelligence matters most.
See how it works in 5 minutes

Join a former law enforcement officer for a practical walkthrough of the tool and features designed to support real-world investigations

Fully Offline & Secure

Sensitive imagery and investigative material never leaves your environment.

Designed for investigative reality

Built for DFUs, safeguarding teams, and frontline investigators — not generic image search.

No specialist infrastructure required

Runs on existing workstations without servers, cloud services, or complex deployment.

We’re creating an open community of collaboration with other industry experts​

S21 VisionX fully supports evidential data exchange with leading digital forensic tools, ensuring seamless integration with your existing workflow. Compatible platforms include X-Ways Forensics, Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics (AXIOM, IEF, Witness), GrayShift, Griffeye, Belkasoft X, Oxygen Forensics, OpenText EnCase, MSAB XRY and XAMN, Exterro, GetData, and many others. With S21 VisionX, you can review, categorise and identify victims efficiently — and easily export results back to your tool of choice for further analysis or reporting.
The Solution

What S21 School Badge Lookup helps investigators do

S21 School Badge Lookup helps investigators work from limited visual clues when a school badge, crest or uniform detail may be the only lead. It allows teams to search by name, region, colour, symbol, wording or partial visual description, helping them surface likely school matches faster while keeping sensitive imagery offline and under investigator control.

Search from partial imagery

Use cropped, unclear or low-quality badge and crest imagery as a starting point.

Search by name or region

Narrow results by school name, partial name, region, country or known location detail.

Search by visual details

Look for schools using colours, symbols, animals, shapes, wording or other visible features.

Surface likely matches faster

Move from uncertain visual clues to candidate schools in seconds, supporting faster triage.

Work offline in secure environments

Analyse sensitive imagery without cloud upload, external search or third-party sharing.

If a badge is visible, it should be searchable.

Identification should not rely on institutional knowledge or who happens to recognise it.
Who it's for

Built for the teams who need early visual leads.

Search by name, region, colour, symbol, wording or partial visual description, to surface likely school matches faster while keeping sensitive imagery offline and under investigator control.

Digital forensic units

Support early triage where school imagery may appear inside wider digital evidence.

Safeguarding teams

Develop leads when a badge, crest or uniform detail may be the first location indicator.

Frontline investigators

Use a practical lookup tool when speed, simplicity and offline access matter.
Supported Coverage

Built for school searches across multiple regions

S21 School Badge Lookup supports searches across Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, the USA and Australia, giving investigators access to a focused reference set for common international school-identification scenarios. Teams can work from limited badge or uniform clues - including colours, symbols, wording, crests, partial names or regional detail - to narrow possible matches faster and support early investigative assessment without relying on manual web searches or external connectivity.
Offline & Secure

Search sensitive imagery without sending it outside your environment.

S21 School Badge Lookup operates fully offline, allowing investigators to assess sensitive imagery without cloud upload, crowdsourcing or external connectivity. It is built to work alongside existing forensic and investigative systems without changing the current workflow.
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School Badge Lookup

Built for partial and low-quality imagery

S21 School Badge Lookup supports searches from cropped, unclear, or incomplete imagery, helping investigators turn limited visual clues into actionable lines of enquiry when a badge is only partly visible.
S21 School Badge Lookup + S21 VisionX

Integrated into S21 Vision X for large-scale investigations

Apply structured badge identification workflows across large investigative datasets.
Semantics School Badge Lookup

S21 School Badge Lookup

S21 School Badge Lookup is a structured, offline investigative utility designed to identify schools from partial, low-quality, or cropped imagery.

S21 VisionX

The offline investigative platform these tools were built inside.

School Badge Lookup was developed and proven inside S21 VisionX and is now available as a standalone tool due to investigator demand.
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Used in investigations where delays and missed connections have consequences.

Designed for secure environments. Built for large-scale investigations. Developed with investigators and forensic practitioners.

Operational impact across real investigations

See how investigative teams are using School Badge Lookup to analyse evidence, identify connections and progress complex cases.
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Test badge identification on your own material

Book a short demo to test School Badge Lookup against real investigative scenarios and assess how it fits into your current workflow.
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