Cleaning OCR'd text with Regular Expressions
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—the conversion of scanned images to machine-encoded text—has proven a godsend for historical research. This process allows texts to be searchable on one hand and more easily parsed and mined on the other. But we’ve all noticed that the OCR for historic texts is fa...
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| Language: | English |
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Editorial Board of the Programming Historian
2013-05-01
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| Series: | The Programming Historian |
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| Online Access: | http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/cleaning-ocrd-text-with-regular-expressions |