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Technology does not like me

 To date I still have yet to analyze my selected text through any software because no matter what I do or how many problems I solve I hit roadblock after roadblock.  As previously mentioned, I intend to analyze text from the House of Commons and Senate -- specificlaly the readings pertaining to the first Canadain Citizenship Act. My initial issue was that despite this resource having been digitized and OCRed (Optical Character Recognition -- when software converts images of textual documents into readable, editable and  searchable text) the OCR was conducted years ago and was not wholy accurate. Many words were incorrectly read, and despite having two separate colums to a page, the OCR sometimes only recognized them as one in sections.  Therefore my first task was to remove the old bad OCR and redo it with newer techonology to improve the accuracy. Under the recommendation of another digital humanities student, I attempted to formulate python code utilizing ChatGPT f...