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The automation of some road pavement maintenance tasks can reduce the time and effort required from experts. This paper proposes a simple system to help speed up road pavement surface inspection and its analysis towards making maintenance decisions. A low-cost video camera mounted on a vehicle was used to capture pavement imagery, which was fed to an automatic crack detection and classification system based on deep neural networks. The system provided two types of output: (i) a cracking percentage per road segment, providing an alert to areas that require attention from the experts; (ii) a segmentation map highlighting which areas of the road pavement surface are affected by cracking. With this data, it became possible to select which maintenance or rehabilitation processes the road pavement required. 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