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 OCRmyPDF documentation
 ======================
 
-OCRmyPDF adds an optical charcter recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF
+OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF
 files, allowing them to be searched.
 
 PDF is the best format for storing and exchanging scanned documents.