Digits and the greater than sign `>' (which can also
appear in the quantity field in the commodity display)
Word:
- Words (or initial parts of words) which start with `l'
- or `I'.
+ Words (or unambigous initial chunks of words) starting with
+ `l' or `I' - see the note, below.
When you add an entry, you should add it to the appropriate dictionary
for its matching context. You can do this by selecting the
If you think you have made mistakes answering OCR queries (for
example, the recognised data is wrong), you should delete the file
-#local-char*#.txt, which contains your local updates. It will then
+_local-char*.txt, which contains your local updates. It will then
only use the centrally provided (and vetted) master file (which is
automatically updated when you run the PCTB client, by default).
-Alternatively you can edit #local-char15#.txt with a text editor. The
+It is also possible to have the OCR system reject particular strings.
+If you put a regexp in _local-reject.txt, any OCR result which
+matches this string will instead cause an OCR failure, invoking the
+OCR dictionary editor if appropriate. _master-reject.txt is the
+centrally maintained version of this file.
+
+Alternatively you can edit _local-char*.txt with a text editor. The
format is not documented at the moment.
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Now that you have read this document, you should rerun your OCR job
-with the --edit-charset option. So
- ./ypp-commodities --edit-charset
-In future, always run it with the --edit-charset option.
+with the --edit-charset option. So run
+ ./ypp-commodities --edit-charset
+In future, this option is not usually needed, because it is the
+default if there is a local character set dictionary _local-<h>.txt
+for the relevant character height.
With --edit-charset, when the OCR finds characters it does not
understand, it will put up an OCR resolution query window. This will