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History — the receipt for everything already done

Splitting and validation records, and how to read a full extraction: senders, bounding boxes, and charges that reconcile.

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History is the audit trail: everything KnowDoc has finished, with the full record behind each one. In the filmed tenant that is 5,200 documents submitted to PPU and 954 validated onward to 3G. Nobody opens this screen when things are going well — you open it when someone asks how a number got where it is, and the answer needs to be checkable rather than asserted.
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Two tabs, two stages

History separates the pipeline's two completions. Splitting covers documents broken apart and submitted to PPU; Validation covers orders checked against the TMS and passed to 3G. A document can appear in both, at different times, which is the point — the tabs are stages, not categories.

Opening a record

The row action menu offers View, Detailed View, and Download. Detailed View is the one that matters here: it opens the extraction record, which is the structured read KnowDoc produced from the page. The breadcrumb switches to Dashboard › Documents when it opens, because the record itself lives under Documents — expected, not a navigation bug.

What a record contains

Three layers, and the third is what makes the record defensible.

  • Sender & metadataWho sent it, when it arrived, which carrier profile read it.
  • Bounding boxesWhere on the page each extracted value was found.
  • Charge linesThe structured financial read — quantities, unit prices, totals.

Bounding boxes are the citation

Every extracted value carries the coordinates it came from. That turns "the system says the total is X" into "the system says the total is X, and here is the pixel region on page 2 it read it from." When a carrier disputes a figure, you are not defending a model's judgement — you are pointing at their own page.

The arithmetic that proves itself

The walkthrough closes on a document whose numbers reconcile three separate ways. The freight line's own quantity times unit price gives 2 × 419.19 = 838.38. The fuel surcharge line states 57.5%, and 57.5% of 838.38 is 482.07 — exactly the extracted FSC. Add the $50 accessorial and 838.38 + 482.07 + 50 = 1,370.45, exactly the total amount due. Every extracted figure is checkable against another extracted figure.

Proof-of-delivery flags

The record also carries POD flags read off the page — signature present, carrier stamp present, and so on, each answered independently. The filmed document has a signature but no carrier stamp. That granularity is what lets a rule say "auto-process if a signature is present" rather than the blunter "auto-process if a POD is attached."

Why nothing here needed a human

That is the argument the screen makes. A document that reconciles against itself, cites its own page coordinates, and satisfies its POD rule has already answered every question a reviewer would have asked. The reason to open History is not to re-check that work — it is to be able to show it, months later, to someone who wasn't there.

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