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Torn pages, dark shadows, pencil marks and other damage to the original newspaper page can make it difficult for our OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to read the fine print accurately.

By registering on our website you can vie to be our Top Text Correction Champion (TTCC) and help prove humans are better than computers.

With registration you can also save your search history to work later on larger research projects.

See “How to correct text” for more information on how to do this.

Text correction statistics

Number of users: 881
Number of users who have corrected text: 147
Total number of lines of text corrected: 814,729

Completely correct

Blocks
78,529
of 47,283,172
0.2%
Articles
3,489
of 1,991,372
0.2%
Pages
275
of 840,406
0.0%
Issues
31
of 86,918
0.0%

Text Correctors Hall of Fame

1.
HH
407,446
2.
donm
108,621
3.
Abietis
57,553
4.
D.A.Lordemann
33,828
5.
ReedJCHS
28,809
6.
juliahenri
22,405
7.
Sarah Draper
17,511
8.
Jim Geraghty
16,487
9.
Elaine W
16,365
10.
catcatcat
9,780
11.
KD
8,974
12.
Carmen
8,956
13.
Erin
7,980
14.
Isabel
6,344
15.
Brandy
6,045
16.
CaitlinM
4,169
17.
China Gal
3,678
18.
applebrynn
3,369
19.
T. D. Wollam
3,338
20.
rrdev00
2,959
21.
Kitty
2,897
22.
caim
2,720
23.
NickH
2,239
24.
BrianaAlzola
2,143
25.
rsflanagan
1,970
26.
James Welch
1,967
27.
EJThomas
1,880
28.
TT Q TT
1,431
29.
jatwah
1,355
30.
Caitlin
1,348
31.
KCR
1,083
32.
kemperkj
1,043
33.
dcwillows
957
34.
Erica Anderson
811
35.
Hsmith
721
36.
Leslee D
613
37.
campcameron
587
38.
TJ
577
39.
MiaBoteler
576
40.
dnawaa
571
41.
kpr
539
42.
GrandmasEyes
530
43.
B L Larson
524
44.
Seth Dalby
508
45.
dana
500
46.
BlueFelix
493
47.
Steve Lloyd
478
48.
james
433
49.
mpschaff
415
50.
Rylanne R
408
51.
DCamp
407
52.
Alan
391
53.
SGubbsy
373
54.
joespinnahardy
364
55.
LoJoLarsen
309
56.
Sajomaro
301
57.
PaperTrail
264
58.
katecmuseum
253
59.
Silberdistel
252
60.
Adam Farnsworth
249
61.
mhardwick
237
62.
mattosan
236
63.
drhundley
222
64.
billygoatgruff
199
65.
BL
197
66.
afrantilla
192
67.
cmyers
191
68.
Molly M
183
69.
Kathleen Anne Burkey
169
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LindaY
166
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DM
146
72.
Erin L
145
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day
136
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Jeff_T
131
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mkolbe
126
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Ballard1890
119
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mvinson
109
78.
Catherine Bents
94
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Lavarock Films
93
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Agnes Nutter
88
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pmclennan
83
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S Fahey
82
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gib Moore
73
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ConnectingClues
72
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Pamela Mumma
70
86.
kallen
67
87.
Kassidy
56
88.
Katherine McDermott
47
89.
Linda Y
45
90.
TT
43
91.
Camille
40
92.
jadesg1
40
93.
WillMcc
36
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peermaed
36
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Sabrina
35
96.
James
35
97.
GRGuy
34
98.
Shirley Stirling
32
99.
Martha J. Martin
32
100.
Sarah Morris
31