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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laura Turner O'Hara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editorial Board of the Programming Historian 2013-05-01
Series:The Programming Historian
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Online Access:http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/cleaning-ocrd-text-with-regular-expressions