Named entities are text units such as the names of persons, organisations, locations, etc. Named entities present a particular problem to OCR accuracy, in that the internal dictionaries of OCR engines tend to recognise only the most common names in each category. See also: Named Entity Recognition; OCR accuracy; Authority files.
Reference: Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_entity_recognition]
Named Entities (NE)
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