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Site-wide inbox to enrich soldier profiles from document scans — forms, certificates, clippings, letters, and team rosters. Upload a scan, confirm who it is and which soldier page would change, review proposed infobox facts and a short biography draft, then Apply.
How it works
- Log in (same as photo uploads).
- Upload a document (photo or PDF). Printed text uses the local OCR engine; check Handwriting / hard scan when the page is cursive or faint (uses the site LLM vision model when configured).
- Confirm who the document is about. Review proposes infobox fields and a biography draft woven from clear facts — not a raw OCR dump. Nothing is written until Apply.
- For multi-person IPW / team rosters, you get a table: each person, the matched wiki page, and what would be written (usually Team membership). Names, ranks, and ASNs are matching cues until you approve.
- Check Soldier pages that will be edited at the top. Use Preview Apply to see planned changes without writing. Then Apply selected (requires
ocr-revieweror admin), or Discard the job. - Optional controls (raw OCR text, document type, gallery attach, overwrite, handwriting re-OCR) are under Advanced.
You can also start from a soldier page → Gallery → OCR a document to enrich this profile (that soldier is pre-selected).
Privacy
- Do not upload Social Security numbers or private contact details for living people.
- Staging files are not published until Apply (Gallery attach is optional; off by default for multi-person uploads).
- See About the data and Contribute.
For reviewers
Administrators can grant the ocr-reviewer group. Other logged-in uploads stay in the queue until a reviewer applies or discards them.
See also Facebook OCR review (editors-only queue of Facebook-sourced document OCR candidates; review aid only — prefer this page for new uploads).