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Getting started
When issues are prepared for display online, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software is used to generate searchable text. OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is never 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original issue, its condition at the time of microfilming, the level of detail captured by the microfilm scanner, and the quality of the OCR software. Issues with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts, or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy.
OCR text correction allows members of the public to help improve the searchability of this collection by correcting errors in the text of the digitized newspapers. Saving these corrections to the collection database improves the accuracy of the text, which enables better search results and a richer experience for all users.
We welcome new contributors to our OCR text correction community. Anyone can participate as long as they have created an account and logged in.
OCR text corrections are saved to the database and will improve the service for all users by increasing the accuracy of search results.
There are two ways you can begin to correct text. From the document viewer:
- Select the article or page you want to correct. This will display the text in the left pane of the document viewer. Click on the "Correct this text" link that appears above this text.
- Right-click on the article or page image and select "Correct article text" or "Correct page text" from the options pop-up window.
The text correction interface is split into two parts: the right side shows the page images that make up the document, and the left side is used for editing the lines of text.
When you move your mouse over the page images in the right pane, the blocks making up the pages will highlight. You can scroll this view by dragging with the mouse, or zoom in/out using the buttons above the viewer. Clicking a highlighted block will select it and load a form for editing that block into the left pane.
Correct the text line by line. A red box is displayed in the right pane to help you determine what text should be included in the line. Once you have finished correcting text, click "Save". The changes you make will take effect immediately.
You can then make further corrections to the same block, move onto the next block by clicking the "Save & next" or "Next" button, select another block in the right pane, or exit the text correction view by clicking the "Return to viewing mode" link.
Clicking "Save & exit" instead of "Save" will save the changes and then return you to the normal viewing mode automatically.
Hint: Many web browsers include spell checking functionality and this can assist with your text correction by identifying misspelt words. If your web browser does not have this functionality, it's likely there is a spell checking add-on available (see your web browser's help for information on how to install add-ons).
For recommendations about topics such as punctuation, misspellings and illegible text, see General guidelines for text correction.
These are the items in the collection that are the most complete — please help to finish them.
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1.Issues that divide the Church — a discussion beginsNational Catholic Reporter 8 February 196796%
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2.MOST OF SAFETY IS IN ADS Nader on ’67 cars: they’re still unsafeNational Catholic Reporter 16 November 196694%
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3.Issues that divide the ChurchNational Catholic Reporter 15 February 196794%
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4.Torrent of good will ends a year of mixed feelingsNational Catholic Reporter 6 January 196592%
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5.A VISION PASSIONATE THOUGH VAGUE Campus radicals-why they lost faith in U.S.National Catholic Reporter 3 January 196792%
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6.Mid-East crisis helps Jewish-German healing processNational Catholic Reporter 14 June 196792%
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7.SPEAKING OF TV THE ESCALATION OF TELEVISED MAYHEMNational Catholic Reporter 9 November 196691%
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8.Seminary slogan: I’ll follow council’ New rector and new spirit bring change to GregorianNational Catholic Reporter 7 December 196691%
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9.OLD AND NEW Money and liberty: power over the purseNational Catholic Reporter 28 October 196490%
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10.Report Negroes leaving ChurchNational Catholic Reporter 28 October 196490%
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11.THINKING IT OVER What really happened in the Tonkin Gulf?National Catholic Reporter 14 December 196690%
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12.The New Pope Will Be Elected by the 78th ConclaveThe Catholic Advocate 24 October 195890%
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13.We had crossed anew frontier of mutual understanding’ Unity dialogue: how it feels on the insideNational Catholic Reporter 1 February 196790%
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14.INDIANA MIGRANTS RUMBLENational Catholic Reporter 28 June 196790%
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15.New attitudes, confusion about sex noted at symposium on rhythmNational Catholic Reporter 28 October 196490%
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16.Two Catholic bishops explore Baptist talksNational Catholic Reporter 17 August 196690%
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17.In sport shirt and slacks A BISHOP COMES TO LISTENNational Catholic Reporter 31 August 196690%
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18.Curran-'no monopoly on the Spirit’ Moral theologian would put himself out of businessNational Catholic Reporter 21 September 196690%
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19.SPEAKING OF TV A new Bell rings inNational Catholic Reporter 5 October 196690%
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20.THINKING IT OVER OLD AND NEW Looking into Leo’s thought processes LEO on the prudence of Pieper and AquinasNational Catholic Reporter 9 November 196690%
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1.Page 1National Catholic Reporter 8 February 196798%
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2.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 3 January 196798%
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3.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 1 February 196798%
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4.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 15 December 196598%
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5.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 28 September 196698%
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6.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 7 April 196597%
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7.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 16 November 196697%
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8.Page 8National Catholic Reporter 3 March 196597%
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9.Page 8National Catholic Reporter 18 May 196697%
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10.Page 8National Catholic Reporter 13 October 196597%
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11.Page 10National Catholic Reporter 29 March 196797%
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12.Page 8National Catholic Reporter 28 October 196497%
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13.Page 1National Catholic Reporter 13 October 196597%
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14.Page 1National Catholic Reporter 7 June 196797%
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15.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 14 December 196697%
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16.Page 2National Catholic Reporter 12 April 196797%
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17.Page 4National Catholic Reporter 18 November 196497%
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18.Page 10National Catholic Reporter 9 March 196697%
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19.Page 3National Catholic Reporter 2 November 196697%
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20.Page 8National Catholic Reporter 10 May 196797%