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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-reviewer or 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).

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.

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).