Evidence Lanes
Fattoreum keeps deterministic cryptographic integrity separate from probabilistic similarity signals.
Exact integrity
Canonical SHA-384 is deterministic and authoritative for exact-match verification.
Near-duplicate similarity
SimHash (`simhash_64`) is probabilistic decision support for minor edits and closely related text.
OCR-derived similarity
Optional OCR-based anti-evasion signal includes confidence metadata and is never exact textual equivalence.
Similarity does not prove intent, plagiarism, fraud, copying, or misconduct. Human review is required.