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Ghitulescu · 01-29-2021, 08:15 AM

Code:

\b([A-Za-z]) ([A-Za-z]) ([A-Za-z]) ([A-Za-z])\b

as most words are 4+ letters long. Also, being foreign language, the elimination of I (first person) would have been counterproductive (lots of foreign glyphs are OCRed as I, for instance ïìîı, because they are longer than i, also l is considered as I in sans-serif fonts).

I could live with a handful of 3-letter long "escapees"

I know it was called letterspacing, but the use of this term would have forced me to rewrite the sentence once again

I tried to use simple words
The OCR insert however spaces.

01-29-2021, 08:15 AM	#8
Ghitulescu Fanatic Posts: 563 Karma: 403106 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: PRS-T1	Code: \b([A-Za-z]) ([A-Za-z]) ([A-Za-z]) ([A-Za-z])\b as most words are 4+ letters long. Also, being foreign language, the elimination of I (first person) would have been counterproductive (lots of foreign glyphs are OCRed as I, for instance ïìîı, because they are longer than i, also l is considered as I in sans-serif fonts). I could live with a handful of 3-letter long "escapees" I know it was called letterspacing, but the use of this term would have forced me to rewrite the sentence once again I tried to use simple words The OCR insert however spaces.