compare_txt: Compare Text

In soodoku/recognize: Assess Quality of OCR

Description

This function calculates the edit distance between OCR'd and human transcribed file. The function by default prints the status of the task you are trying to delete. It will show up as 'deleted' if successful

Usage

compare_txt(path_to_ocr = NULL, path_to_gold = NULL,
  remove_extra_space = TRUE, normalize = TRUE)

Arguments

path_to_ocr	path to file containing OCR'd text; required
path_to_gold	path to file containing human transcribed text; required
remove_extra_space	a dummy indicating whether or not extra spaces should be removed from the OCR file; default is TRUE
normalize	normalize string distance measures – otherwise longer document means more errors, more distance

Value

levenshtein distance

Examples

## Not run: 
compare_txt(path_to_ocr="path_to_ocr_file", path_to_gold="path_to_gold_file", 
	           remove_extra_space=TRUE, normalize=TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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