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-# Nerval
+# Nerval, an evaluation python package for NER evaluation on noisy text
 
 > Je suis l'autre
 >
 >  -- <cite>Gérard de Nerval</cite>
 
-A NER evaluation metric on noisy text, typically to measure NER performances on HTR predictions.
+Nerval is an evaluation library written in python for implementing a metric for named-entity recognition evaluation  on noisy text, typically to measure NER performances on OCR or Handwritten text recognition predictions.
 
 ## Usage