Turn a broad statement into checks the pixels can answer
An image can show a printed serial number, a visible crack, a colored warning sign or a count of bounded objects. It usually cannot prove who caused an event, when it happened, whether a person is trustworthy or whether an unseen condition exists. The claim grounder begins by keeping that boundary visible. It accepts one short statement, removes control characters, separates quoted text, numbers, colors, negation and observable terms, then records that decomposition in the report.
Quoted wording receives the strongest deterministic check. If the user writes that a label says “SN-204,” the local OCR regions are compared with that exact normalized phrase. A matching bounded line can support the visible-text part of the claim without downloading a large vision model. Failure to read the phrase stays insufficient because low contrast, unusual lettering, rotation or a partial crop can make OCR miss text that a person can still see.
- One claim at a time
- Exact quoted-text comparison
- Count, color and negation decomposition
- No claim expansion beyond the image