words_en: A list of English words
In lmullen/ocrquality: Measures of OCR Quality

Description Usage Format Source

This list of English words includes inflected forms and British, American, and Canadian variant spellings.

1	data(words_en)

A character vector of length 348,844.

This custom wordlist was generated from SCOWL with these parameters:

diacritic: both
max_size: 80
max_variant: 3
special: hacker roman-numerals
spelling: US GBs GBz CA

The following copyright notice is required:

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication: if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included verbatim.

There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list distributed as widely as possible.

Special credit also goes to Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> as he has given me an incredible amount of feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.

Many sources were used in the creation of SCOWL, most of them were in the public domain or used indirectly. For a full list please see the SCOWL readme.

http://wordlist.aspell.net/

lmullen/ocrquality documentation built on May 21, 2019, 7:35 a.m.