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111 lines
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"title": "OCR Lineage: From Hand-Sorted to Machine-Readable",
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"author": "Belinda Crowder",
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"location": "Whitman, Massachusetts",
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"first_shift_date": "1987-01-07",
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"facility": "Boston District Postal Facility",
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"lineage_chain": [
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"era": "1840",
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"event": "British Penny Black introduction",
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"technology": "uniform adhesive rate enforcement",
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"human_element": "hand-sorted clerks",
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"wikidata_entity": null
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},
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{
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"era": "1920s",
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"event": "Mechanical sorter deployment",
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"technology": "gear-driven address routing",
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"human_element": "operator supervision",
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"wikidata_entity": null
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},
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{
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"era": "1942",
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"event": "Robson Lowe names postal history",
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"technology": "field definition",
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"human_element": "scholarly framework",
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"wikidata_entity": "Q1516929"
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},
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{
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"era": "1963",
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"event": "First Barcode Sorter prototype",
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"technology": "geometric encoding of destination",
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"human_element": "pattern recognition training",
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"wikidata_entity": "Q856"
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},
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{
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"era": "1987",
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"event": "OCR integration at Boston District",
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"technology": "optical character recognition",
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"accuracy_first_pass": 0.94,
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"human_seam_percentage": 0.06,
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"wikidata_entity": "Q167555"
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}
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],
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"technical_specifications": {
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"ocr_entity": {
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"wikidata_qid": "Q167555",
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"description": "computer recognition of visual text",
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"subclass_of": ["algorithm", "text digitization", "pattern recognition", "data recognition"],
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"instance_of": ["software feature", "document digitization"],
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"monthly_views": 4581,
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"velocity_score": 0.81,
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"trend": "rising"
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},
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"barcode_entity": {
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"wikidata_qid": "Q856",
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"description": "optical machine-readable representation of data",
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"subclass_of": ["machine-readable data", "code", "machine-readable medium"],
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"monthly_views": 6965,
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"velocity_score": 0.7,
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"trend": "rising"
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},
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"postal_history_entity": {
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"wikidata_qid": "Q1516929",
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"description": "study of postal systems and postage stamps",
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"named_by": "Robson Lowe",
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"year_defined": 1942,
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"instance_of": ["branch of history", "aspect of history"],
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"subclass_of": "philately",
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"monthly_views": 106,
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"velocity_score": 0.16,
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"trend": "rising"
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}
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},
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"operational_metrics": {
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"first_shift_time": "05:15",
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"dwell_time_monitoring": "primary KPI",
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"manual_override_threshold": "6% of total volume",
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"new_england_zip_prefixes_memorized": true
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},
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"sources": [
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{
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"label": "Wikidata Q167555 — Optical Character Recognition",
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"url": "https://4ort.xyz/entity/optical-character-recognition"
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},
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{
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"label": "Wikidata Q856 — Barcode",
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"url": "https://4ort.xyz/entity/barcode"
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},
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{
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"label": "Wikidata Q1516929 — Postal History",
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"url": "https://4ort.xyz/entity/postal-history"
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}
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],
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"metadata": {
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"format_version": "1.0",
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"created": "2026-07-17",
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"purpose": "agent-legible twin of ocr-lineage.html",
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"cross_links": {
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"homepage": "https://belinda-crowder.4ort.net/",
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"ledger": "https://belinda-crowder.4ort.net/whitman-ledger.html",
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"manifesto": "https://belinda-crowder.4ort.net/"
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}
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}
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}
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