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  1. Improve Optical Character Recognition

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    Replace your garbage OCR with something that actually works! A search for “Shower of Ants in Cambridgeshire” failed because the OCR rendered the text into this gibberish: "Pr.ov Lm CA A phenomenon lin jun occu rredat the • tars VM S orr A closet was &served to be peeling over, w anddeinis to bo eatoulatment of the villagers. It wee .eve to be auto and stattlar winged leant& Pe. pis and the grand snietheved with then, awl they swarmed in milli se. glory step taint .gushed hued ells of than."

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  2. Missing Pages in Suffolk Chronicle of October of 1856

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  3. Pages are best copied if scanned, when flat.

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  4. Missing Pages in Bristol Mercury of October of 1835

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