Research Guides: Text Data Mining: Instructional Materials

Corpus Preparation

Tutorial on Extracting Text and Data from Files Using OCR
NYU Data Services instructional materials offering introduction to OCR.
Workshop materials from Teaching ABBYY FineReader and Adobe Acrobat Pro
University of Illinois Savvy Researcher Workshop.
GitHub "Awesome" series on OCR
Overview of OCR and a wide range of useful tools.
Joy of Data tutorial on training Tesseract 3
Short basic tutorial for training Tesseract 3.

Tutorial on Web Scraping with R and rvest
Tutorial by Ryan Thomas.
GitHub "Awesome" series on Web Scraping
A list of tools, programming libraries and web services used in web scraping.

Interactive Tutorial on Regular Expressions basics
Tutorial by RegexOne.
Tutorial on Cleaning OCR’d text with Regular Expressions
Tutorial published by Programming Historian.
GitHub "Awesome" series on Regular Expressions
A collection of regex libraries, tools, frameworks and software.
Python Regular Expressions: 2.x
Official Python documentation for regex in Python 2.x.
Python Regular Expressions: 3.x
Official Python documentation for regex in Python 3.x.
Regular Expressions in R
Documentation for using regex in R.
Regular Expressions in R: stringr
Tutorial for the stringr library in R.

Duke University Libraries guide to text analysis
A library guide focused on tools and tutorials for text mining.