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-# R book template
+# Text Recognition & Analysis
 
-A quarto project template to use for courses and other documentation separated from the main BlueGreen Labs website
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-To make sure that the template works "out of the box" you will have to include all branches (click the tick box which isn't marked by default).
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-![Screenshot from 2023-11-27 09-59-25](https://github.com/bluegreen-labs/R_book_template/assets/1354258/c3eb89cb-85d7-454a-ac44-b888da14e5c5)
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-If you forgot to tick the box you will need to run the `quarto publish gh-pages` command in a CLI terminal (not the R terminal).
+These are the materials for the course / workshop, text recognition and analysis given 6-7 Feb. 2025 at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Mainz. This book will serve as a reference during the course, and as a general introduction and reference for all things Handwritten Text Recognition / Optical Character Recognition (HTR/OCR).