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Getting started
When issues are prepared for display online, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software is used to generate searchable text. OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is never 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original issue, its condition at the time of microfilming, the level of detail captured by the microfilm scanner, and the quality of the OCR software. Issues with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts, or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy.
OCR text correction allows members of the public to help improve the searchability of this collection by correcting errors in the text of the digitized newspapers. Saving these corrections to the collection database improves the accuracy of the text, which enables better search results and a richer experience for all users.
We welcome new contributors to our OCR text correction community. Anyone can participate as long as they have created an account and logged in.
OCR text corrections are saved to the database and will improve the service for all users by increasing the accuracy of search results.
There are two ways you can begin to correct text. From the document viewer:
- Select the article or page you want to correct. This will display the text in the left pane of the document viewer. Click on the "Correct this text" link that appears above this text.
- Right-click on the article or page image and select "Correct article text" or "Correct page text" from the options pop-up window.
The text correction interface is split into two parts: the right side shows the page images that make up the document, and the left side is used for editing the lines of text.
When you move your mouse over the page images in the right pane, the blocks making up the pages will highlight. You can scroll this view by dragging with the mouse, or zoom in/out using the buttons above the viewer. Clicking a highlighted block will select it and load a form for editing that block into the left pane.
Correct the text line by line. A red box is displayed in the right pane to help you determine what text should be included in the line. Once you have finished correcting text, click "Save". The changes you make will take effect immediately.
You can then make further corrections to the same block, move onto the next block by clicking the "Save & next" or "Next" button, select another block in the right pane, or exit the text correction view by clicking the "Return to viewing mode" link.
Clicking "Save & exit" instead of "Save" will save the changes and then return you to the normal viewing mode automatically.
Hint: Many web browsers include spell checking functionality and this can assist with your text correction by identifying misspelt words. If your web browser does not have this functionality, it's likely there is a spell checking add-on available (see your web browser's help for information on how to install add-ons).
For recommendations about topics such as punctuation, misspellings and illegible text, see General guidelines for text correction.
These are the items in the collection that are the most complete — please help to finish them.
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1.The News Condensed.People's Pilot 24 February 189390%
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2.A LITTLE COMEDY OF ERRORSPeople's Pilot 24 March 189388%
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3.Hear Us.People's Pilot 24 March 189387%
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4.Page 1 Advertisements Column 2People's Pilot 7 April 189386%
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5.Page 1 Advertisements Column 4People's Pilot 6 January 189385%
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6.MastheadPeople's Pilot 6 January 189383%
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7.The Press and the Public.People's Pilot 6 January 189383%
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8.GOODLAND.People's Pilot 24 March 189383%
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9.WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.People's Pilot 24 March 189380%
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10.GOD IN THE CENTURIES.People's Pilot 6 January 189380%
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11.THE END COMES.People's Pilot 3 February 189380%
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12.BRIDGET'S VALENTINE.People's Pilot 10 February 189380%
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13.MastheadRensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican 20 June 190280%
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14.MastheadPeople's Pilot 7 April 189380%
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15.Remington Items.Rensselaer Republican 1 December 189275%
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16.EXPLODED HUMBUG.Rensselaer Gazette 1 June 185975%
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17.Clinton Line Road.Jasper Banner 8 June 185475%
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18.Capture of a Railroad Train by the Indians.Rensselaer Union 19 November 186875%
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19.Indiana State NewsRensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican 31 May 190775%
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20.NEWS OF THE WEEK.Rensselaer Republican 15 March 188875%
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1.Page 1Daily State Sentinel 6 December 185199%
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2.Page 2Crawfordsville Daily Journal 2 January 189099%
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3.Page 3The Daily Banner 14 December 194499%
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4.Page 1Daily State Sentinel 3 November 185199%
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5.Page 1The Daily Banner 14 December 194498%
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6.Page 12Indianapolis Times 20 February 193098%
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7.Page 8Indianapolis Times 27 February 193097%
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8.Page 13Indianapolis Times 19 February 193097%
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9.Page 14Indianapolis Times 3 March 193097%
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10.Page 15Indianapolis Times 20 February 193097%
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11.Page 11Indianapolis Times 1 March 193097%
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12.Page 2Indianapolis Recorder 6 January 190097%
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13.Page 13Indianapolis Times 20 February 193097%
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14.Page 11Indianapolis Times 24 February 193097%
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15.Page 16Indianapolis Times 27 February 193097%
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16.Page 6People's Pilot 3 February 189396%
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17.Page 6Indianapolis Times 17 February 193096%
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18.Page 8Indianapolis Times 20 February 193096%
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19.Page 16Indianapolis Times 4 March 193096%
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20.Page 2Jewish Post 9 February 193496%
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