Thread: finding l's OCRed as I's
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Old 06-19-2014, 02:23 PM   #8
jlocicero
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
use regex mode (and lookbehinds, which do NOT capture):

Code:
(?<=[a-z])I
Replace with "l"
This won't catch the illegitimate word "Iegitimate", though.

Hmm,

Code:
(?<![."]\s*)I
That should match any "I" that does NOT follow punctuation (even if there is an intervening space).

I'd still eyeball each edit first -- or scan each change using "See what's changed".
I just tried both of these, and they find all i's in the text. I made sure Regex mode was selected. What have I done wrong?
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