From headstone to searchable record
Four steps turn a photograph into a verified, searchable memorial — with accountability at every handoff and families protected from confident mistakes.
Four steps, with accountability at each handoff
The product is simple to use because the complexity is handled in the workflow, not pushed onto the family trying to find a memorial.
Capture
A contributor uploads a clear memorial photo plus context when available — GPS coordinates, cemetery name, and section details.
- GPS-tagged photo upload
- Cemetery and section identification
- Batch upload for volunteers
- Mobile-friendly capture app
Extract
OCR reads names, dates, and inscription fragments without inventing missing text. Unknown data stays unknown.
- AI-powered text extraction
- Date parsing and validation
- Inscription fragment matching
- Multi-language support
Review
Confidence scoring, duplicate detection, and human moderation resolve edge cases before anything goes public.
- Confidence-based routing
- Duplicate detection warnings
- Community moderator queue
- Source photo comparison
Publish
The record becomes searchable with full provenance, plot detail, and a correction path for families and researchers.
- Searchable memorial records
- Full provenance chain
- Correction and update path
- Family claim and enrichment
The rules that keep the ledger credible
These are not abstract values. They are operating rules enforced in search, review, and moderation.
Honest Unknowns
Unknown data stays unknown instead of being guessed by the model.
Visible Provenance
Every public record keeps a visible provenance story from photo to publication.
Privacy Protection
Privacy and safety requests route through a real suppression and takedown workflow.
Safe Deduplication
Duplicate detection warns first and merges second — never silently overwrites.
Confidence and review
Confidence never acts alone. It only decides how quickly a human should look.
80% and above
Auto-publishFast path to publication when the memorial context is clean.
50% to 79%
Manual reviewManual review for uncertain names, dates, duplicates, or location context.
Below 50%
Held backHeld back until better evidence or a manual transcription is available.
Indexed and growing
Verified with provenance
On clear memorials
From upload to publication
Help preserve history
Every photograph uploaded becomes a searchable memorial record. Join the community of volunteers, researchers, and families preserving these stories.