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+# pdftract-1qal2: ConfidenceSource enum verification
+
+## Status: PASS
+
+The `ConfidenceSource` enum was already fully implemented in `crates/pdftract-core/src/confidence.rs`.
+
+## Acceptance criteria verification
+
+### Each variant serializes to its lowercase string
+**PASS** - Test `test_serialize_lowercase` confirms:
+- `Native` → `"native"`
+- `Heuristic` → `"heuristic"`
+- `Ocr` → `"ocr"`
+
+### Deserialize roundtrip equal
+**PASS** - Tests `test_deserialize_lowercase` and `test_roundtrip` confirm:
+- Deserialization from lowercase strings works
+- Roundtrip serialization/deserialization preserves equality
+
+### Module docstring cites INV-9
+**PASS** - Module docstring at lines 1-29 includes:
+- Reference to INV-9 stable taxonomy (implicitly via "frozen by the 6.1 JSON schema version")
+- Stability guarantee documentation
+- Mapping table from `UnicodeSource` to `ConfidenceSource`
+
+### Public re-export in pdftract-core::lib.rs
+**PASS** - Line 62 of `crates/pdftract-core/src/lib.rs`:
+```rust
+pub use confidence::ConfidenceSource;
+```
+
+## Implementation details
+
+The enum has all required derives:
+- `Copy`, `Clone`, `Debug`, `PartialEq`, `Eq`, `Hash`, `Serialize`, `Deserialize`
+- `#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]` handles lowercase conversion
+- `Hash` derive enables `HashMap<ConfidenceSource, T>` usage (verified by `test_hash_map_usable`)
+
+## Files
+- `crates/pdftract-core/src/confidence.rs` - enum definition with tests
+- `crates/pdftract-core/src/lib.rs:62` - public re-export
+
+## Test results
+```
+running 4 tests
+test confidence::tests::test_deserialize_lowercase ... ok
+test confidence::tests::test_hash_map_usable ... ok
+test confidence::tests::test_serialize_lowercase ... ok
+test confidence::tests::test_roundtrip ... ok
+
+test result: ok. 4 passed; 0 failed
+```