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+# Transcription Corrector
+
+This small CLI programm takes an input .txt file, a word list (each line only featuring one word), and the name of an output file and corrects the input based on the closest word match via Levenshtein and Sørensen-Dice distance.
+
+## Usage
+
+For whole files:
+```
+$ text-correction correct-file -i input.txt -l wordlist.txt -o output.txt
+```
+
+For individual words:
+```
+$ text-correction correct-word -i exampleword
+```
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