OCR and Data Validation

One thing developers should remember:
Valid syntax doesn't mean valid data.
For example, OCR might generate perfectly valid JSON but misread:
2026 as 2028
The JSON parser won't care.
Same idea with SQL, CSV, XML or YAML.
The format can be technically correct while the actual information is wrong.
So my basic OCR workflow would be:
Extract → Parse → Validate → Use