SAT Question 63c73b50: Transitions answer and explanation

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In 2018, Kurt Luther and Vikram Mohanty created the web-based tool Civil War Photo Sleuth (CWPS). A user uploading an unknown Civil War soldier’s photograph to CWPS first tags the photo with all known information. ______ CWPS’s facial-recognition software analyzes twenty-seven different physical features and looks for matches to tagged images already in the database.
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Difficulty:Medium
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?