Consider pre-processing files for common issues that I don't want to solve with regex

eebbesen / hbcb_rails

Cool data at https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/index.html, but it is stuck in pdfs

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Open eebbesen opened 8 years ago

eebbesen commented 8 years ago

Solve common formatting issues from the PDF conversion. This may make the regex less obtuse.d

Ne AME instead of NAME
newlines in bio line
strip *An Outfit year ran from 1 June to 31 May and other common text I don't care about