diff --git a/COPYRIGHT.md b/COPYRIGHT.md
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-Copyright (c) 2013 fritz-hh from Github
-
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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 OCRmyPDF
 ========
 
-Script aimed at performing optical character recognition (OCR) on PDF files from PDF files containing only images
+OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
 
 To get the script usage, call: ./OCmyPDF.sh -h