Document recovery guide
Plain OCR gives you a stream of characters. Useful Markdown needs headings, paragraphs, lists, page boundaries and a reading order that can be reviewed before the text enters notes, a knowledge base or an AI workflow.
Public source and recovery preview
The Bell notebook has faded handwriting, irregular line breaks and marginal placement. A plain OCR dump creates plausible fragments without dependable order. The recovery preview groups notes into readable blocks while keeping uncertainty visible.
Provenance: Alexander Graham Bell notebook, Library of Congress. Inspect the Atlas case.
Plain text flattens every region into one stream. Structured Markdown distinguishes headings from body text, keeps list items separate, records page boundaries and provides a stable format for diffs, search and downstream parsing.
Markdown is easier to version and chunk than a raw OCR stream, but formatting does not make uncertain recognition correct. Keep the source manifest and review flags beside the document, and verify quotations before publishing or retrieving them as facts.
No. Visual emphasis and semantic hierarchy are not always equivalent, so heading levels require review.
Yes after review. Keep provenance and review flags so retrieved passages can be traced back to the source.
The free check helps identify whether deeper recovery is unnecessary.
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