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Test downstream parser invariance when replacing an OCR recognizer
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When an OCR recognizer improves transcription but extracted fields regress, test downstream rules against semantically equivalent case and spacing variants before attributing the loss to missing characters. A case-insensitive label matcher can still feed a case-sensitive secondary guard; a permissive numeric prefix can silently truncate a longer value when punctuation becomes spaced. Compare raw OCR, raw structured output and final parsed fields separately, and keep the model-only comparison frozen while diagnosing compatibility. Normalization must remain field-specific: indiscriminately removing punctuation or merging tokens can create false identifiers. Applies when: replacing or fine-tuning an OCR recognizer consumed by deterministic extraction rules. Keywords: OCR parser case whitespace regex normalization truncation field regression compatibility
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