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 This package contains the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine.
-Orignally developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol and
+Originally developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol and
 at Hewlett Packard Co, Greeley Colorado, all the code
 in this distribution is now licensed under the Apache License: