diff --git a/collector/connector/validationconnector/README.md b/collector/connector/validationconnector/README.md
index 987c3a8dc8..839d8074bf 100644
--- a/collector/connector/validationconnector/README.md
+++ b/collector/connector/validationconnector/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ is resolved this component cannot be reliably used.
 ## Configuration
 
 This connector can be used to test any exporter and receiver pair that
-are able to propagate metadata using the Colector's
+are able to propagate metadata using the Collector's
 `client.Metadata.Info` mechanism.  For example, to test an OTel Arrow
 collector configuration, configure a loopback receiver:
 
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ cases using two kinds of context variable.
    matching data.
    
 For each expected and actual data item, the support method
-`AssertEquiv` library in `../../../pkg/otel/assert/` is used to ensure
-that the data is equivalent.  This package uses a definition of
-equivalence that tolerates reordering of unordered fields, which is
-necesary to validate the OTel Arrow components in this repository.
+`AssertEquiv` library in [pkg/otel/asasert](https://github.com/open-telemetry/otel-arrow/tree/main/pkg/otel/assert/README.md) is used to ensure
+that the data are equivalent.  This package supports the comparison of
+two distinct structures that are semantically equivalent but
+structurally different in several ways that can happen as a result of
+the Arrow encoding.
diff --git a/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/config.go b/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/config.go
index 5d35238012..1d897d71a8 100644
--- a/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/config.go
+++ b/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/config.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	Rounds int `mapstructure:"rounds"`
 
 	// KeyLength is a Fiestel parameter which determines the
-	// length of the keyt used to obfuscate.  Default 128.
+	// length of the key used to obfuscate.  Default 128.
 	KeyLength int `mapstructure:"key_length"`
 
 	// EncryptAll indicates that all byte-array and string values
diff --git a/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/factory.go b/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/factory.go
index 653f827c14..968c0356ea 100644
--- a/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/factory.go
+++ b/collector/processor/obfuscationprocessor/factory.go
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func createTracesProcessor(
 		processorhelper.WithShutdown(processor.Shutdown))
 }
 
-// createTracesProcessor creates an instance of obfuscation for processing traces
+// createLogsProcessor creates an instance of obfuscation for processing logs.
 func createLogsProcessor(
 	ctx context.Context,
 	set processor.CreateSettings,
diff --git a/pkg/otel/assert/README.md b/pkg/otel/assert/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b3e435b2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/otel/assert/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+This package supports validation of data that has passed through Arrow
+encoding and decoding, recognizing that there may be structural
+differences for semantically equivalent data.
+
+Examples of transformations that are allowed by `assert.Equiv()`:
+
+- Appearance of duplicate Resource, Scope, and Metric entities
+- Order of Resource instances in a Resource list
+- Order of Scope items in a Resource
+- Order of Span, Metric, and LogRecord items in a Scope
+- Order of Links/Events in a Span
+- and so on.
+
+The `assert.Equiv()` method in this package should be used for
+unittesting and validation of data in an OTel Arrow pipeline.  See the
+[code](equiv.go) for details.
diff --git a/tools/trace_verify/main.go b/tools/trace_verify/main.go
index 4dfda02e3a..05c9776ffc 100644
--- a/tools/trace_verify/main.go
+++ b/tools/trace_verify/main.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"flag"
+	"io"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 
@@ -48,11 +49,17 @@ func main() {
 			log.Fatalf("open: %s: %v", file, err)
 			return
 		}
-		scanner := bufio.NewScanner(f)
-		for scanner.Scan() {
+		scanner := bufio.NewReader(f)
+		for {
+			line, err := scanner.ReadString('\n')
+			if err == io.EOF {
+				break
+			} else if err != nil {
+				log.Fatalf("read: %v", err)
+			}
 			var un ptrace.JSONUnmarshaler
 
-			expected, err := un.UnmarshalTraces([]byte(scanner.Text()))
+			expected, err := un.UnmarshalTraces([]byte(line))
 			if err != nil {
 				log.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
 			}
@@ -78,8 +85,5 @@ func main() {
 
 			log.Printf("Verified %d traces\n", expected.SpanCount())
 		}
-		if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
-			log.Fatalf("read: %v", err)
-		}
 	}
 }