Patent ID: 7971140

Claim:
A method for generating quotations from a safety standards document in an inspection compliance system to ensure inspection compliance, the method comprising: capturing a photograph of a potential problem with a physical asset; capturing an image of a portion of the safety standards document; displaying the captured image of the safety standards document to be cropped by a user; receiving a first input from the user designating a first point in the captured image to define a first corner of a crop rectangle; receiving a second input from the user designating a second point in the captured image to define a second corner of the crop rectangle, wherein the first input is released before the second input is initiated; cropping the captured image from the first point to the second point of the crop rectangle immediately when the second input is released to generate an image quotation, wherein the first and second inputs are touch inputs; generating a quotation data object comprising the image quotation and a bibliographical reference back to a referenced section of the safety standards document which contains the image quotation in order to substantiate the potential problem identified in the photograph; and providing the quotation data object to the inspection compliance system to substantiate statements of problems found during an inspection and statements of passed inspections.