Apply spell correction to OCR

[danvk]

There are many trivial errors in the transcribed text which could be fixed using some knowledge of English and NYC-area nouns.

Trivial errors fall into a few classes:

• Problems with dates
  • "JdTy 5, 1930." --> "July 5, 1930"
  • "Cune 18, i930" --> "June 18, 1930"
  • "Anril 1923"
  • "arch 1925."
  • "April 39" -> "April 30"
  • "Augst 27, 1933."
• Number/letter mixups:
  • "S9th Sttreet"
  • "3O1" (O vs. 0)
  • "186O" (O vs 0)
  • "196h."→"1964."
  • "8treets"→"Streets"
  • "Sth"→"8th"
  • "18V8"→"1898"
  • "1s"→"is"
  • "193S"→"1935"
• Wrong repetitions:
  • "SSecond"
  • "Sttreet"
  • "IIn"
  • "IIt"
  • "lIsland"
• Dumb typos:
  • "Sduare"→"Square"
  • "Suare"→"Square"
  • "autoaobile"→"automobile"
  • "subsecuently"→"subsequently"
  • "New YoNk"→"New York"
  • "nrooklyn"→"Brooklyn"
  • "dorner"→"corner"
  • "fhe"→"the"
  • "Nobth"→"North"
  • "NoNth"→"North"
  • "aultiple"→"multiple"
  • "Tsland"→"Island"
  • "nearlv"→"nearly"
  • "colontal"→"colonial"
  • "wiews"→"views"
  • "Hhdson"→"Hudson"
  • "Paralueling"→"Paralleling"
  • "antioipates"→"anticipates"
  • "3roadway"→"Broadway"
  • "Muthority"→"Authority"
  • "Vest 51st"→"West 51st"
  • "14th Str et"→"14th Street"
  • "Gatholic Ghurch"→"Catholic Church"
  • "Viewa"→"Views"

[danvk]

Anecdotally, pyenchant doesn't do a particularly good job of getting the correct replacement in the top spot. Rolling my own spell checker ala Peter Norvig using validated transcriptions as a source of words might work better.

[danvk]

Realistically, I'm not going to revisit this. Users are doing a fine job all on their own.