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-# tessdata_fast
-Fast integer versions of trained models 
+# tessdata_fast – Fast integer versions of trained models
+
+This repository contains language data for the
+[Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).
+
+All data in the repository are licensed under the
+Apache-2.0 License, see file [COPYING](COPYING).