Starting next year, Derdack, a company based in Potsdam, Germany, plans to start selling software for mobile phones that it says could revolutionize the work of art investigators.

With Derdack’s software, investigators can take a photo of a suspicious painting with a cellphone or a personal digital assistant, send it wirelessly by GPRS or UMTS networks to international databases of stolen art and make a match - within seconds.

Derdack’s software could become a powerful tool in the fight against art theft, which Interpol says is increasing with the price of art. Across Europe, there are more than 100,000 pieces of stolen art on record, according to Interpol.

read the full article of Kevin J. O’Brien in the International Herald Tribune

Derdacks press release.

Starting next year, Derdack, a company based in Potsdam, Germany, plans to start selling software for mobile phones that it says could revolutionize the work of art investigators.
With Derdack’s software, investigators can take a photo of a suspicious painting with a cellphone or a personal digital assistant, send it wirelessly by GPRS or UMTS networks [...]