Soft launch: Soldier biographies and research notes vary in completeness. Prefer class-roster, NARA, newspapers, and other cited sources for contested facts — treat Research notes as leads, not settled history. Anyone can correct a page; contact us with questions.
Contribute documents
Loading document OCR tools… (requires login and the OCR review service).
Site-wide inbox for document OCR. Upload a scan, confirm who it is and which soldier page would change, then Apply.
How it works
- Log in (same as photo uploads).
- Upload a document (photo or PDF of a record, form, list, or similar). OCR runs on the server; nothing is written to a soldier page yet.
- Confirm who the document is about. If several people appear on one scan, you get a table: each person, the matched wiki page (when found), and what would be written on that profile. Names, ranks, and service numbers from the scan are matching cues — they are not applied 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, gallery attach, overwrite existing fields) are under Advanced.
You can also start from a soldier page → Gallery → OCR a document (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.