The Journey

Project structure established. Master project prompt created. Pipeline overview documented. Philosophy and mission locked. Folder architecture defined for the entire project.

Python virtual environment configured. Tesseract 5.3.4 installed. OCR engine built and validated at 94.04% confidence. Cleaning engine built with 3 bugs found and fixed. Metadata engine built with SHA-256 hashing working. Pipeline runner built — full pipeline in one command. First document processed: TPN-20260307-806040a5.

FastAPI skeleton built with three endpoints — process, retrieve, and health check. Import mismatch bug debugged and resolved by tracing function signatures across all pipeline modules. All endpoints tested and confirmed working. Week 1 complete.

Form() bug found and fixed — library, scanner, and document type fields now saving correctly. Embedding engine built using sentence-transformers all-MiniLM-L6-v2 — 384 dimensions. Semantic search endpoint added to API. All four endpoints confirmed working from browser via Swagger UI.

Git initialized. Private GitHub repository created. 1,851 lines of code pushed in first commit. Professional README written with mission, pipeline, setup instructions, and roadmap. Swagger UI API docs confirmed working. All four endpoints tested from browser.

virtuallaborforce.com rebuilt from scratch with professional design system. Five pages: Home, TPN, Journey, About, Contact. Clean modern aesthetic with inspirational tone. Connected to GitHub for automatic deployment.

vFlat X used to capture 6 real pages from a physical book. Initial confidence scores ranged from 37% to 69% — all flagged for review. Three targeted fixes were identified and implemented: adaptive threshold parameters optimized, fastNlMeansDenoising replacing medianBlur, and PSM mode changed from 6 to 3. Result: 4 of 6 pages ACCEPTED at 85%+ confidence. Peak confidence achieved: 91.95%. Scanning guide created for future volunteers.

First visit to Eastpointe Library historical section. Real historical newspapers, manuscripts, and local records scanned and processed through the TPN pipeline. Community contribution tracker launched.