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BUREAU / MACHINE-ASSISTED DIAGNOSTIC READING Run 01 · Preliminary machine-reading pilot

Machine run complete · artist validation ongoing

When one system reads another

Where readings
fail to coincide.

A bounded comparison of what machine reading preserves, alters, omits or reconstructs within a fixed 185-record ticket-and-voucher subset drawn from the wider 296-record candidate digital field.

Computational output is retained as diagnostic evidence of a reading process. The 20 comparisons are machine-assisted drafts awaiting artist validation; they do not establish provenance, object identity or historical fact.
Source field185 candidate records
Draft set20 comparisons
Input conditionFixed / V1
Non-empty OCR184 / 185
Artist validationPending / ongoing
T–027 Machine failure
Selected paper record

Productive omission

OCR confidence
0.000
Visual cluster
01

Visible record / machine-assisted draft comparison

A faded, vertically oriented printed voucher.

Raw machine output

No text detected

01 / PRESERVED

The visual model registers a dark, vertical, bordered object.

Next verification action

Bounded draft set / 20

Comparisons awaiting artist validation

Fixed subset / source register

The full 185-record source field remains visible.

These candidate digital records are not presented as completed catalogue entries. Some crops contain more than one physical object, and object-level correspondence with the 318-object physical inventory remains under reconciliation.

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Included in the 20-record draft comparison set Candidate record / artist validation pending
INPUT

185 fixed candidate records with stable identifiers T–001–T–185.

PROCESS

OCR, a 38-dimensional visual feature set and machine-assisted draft comparisons.

RETAINED

Raw outputs, code version, draft notes and uncertainty remain separately traceable for artist validation.