diff --git a/qurator/dinglehopper/edit_distance.py b/qurator/dinglehopper/edit_distance.py
index fec2bca..1fd5bb5 100644
--- a/qurator/dinglehopper/edit_distance.py
+++ b/qurator/dinglehopper/edit_distance.py
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ def levenshtein_matrix(seq1: Sequence, seq2: Sequence):
     return _levenshtein_matrix(tuple(seq1), tuple(seq2))
 
 
-@lru_cache()
+@lru_cache(maxsize=10)
 def _levenshtein_matrix(seq1: Tuple, seq2: Tuple):
     """Compute the matrix commonly computed to produce the Levenshtein distance.
 
-    This is a LRU cached function not meant to be used directly. Use levensthein_matrix() instead.
+    This is a LRU cached function not meant to be used directly. Use levenshtein_matrix() instead.
     """
     m = len(seq1)
     n = len(seq2)
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ def levenshtein(seq1, seq2):
     return D[m, n]
 
 
+def levenshtein_matrix_cache_clear():
+    """Clear internal Levenshtein matrix cache.
+
+    You want to do this between different input file pairs to decrease memory
+    usage by not caching results from prior input files.
+    """
+    _levenshtein_matrix.cache_clear()
+
+
 def distance(s1, s2):
     """Compute the Levenshtein edit distance between two Unicode strings
 
diff --git a/qurator/dinglehopper/ocrd_cli.py b/qurator/dinglehopper/ocrd_cli.py
index ee44e2f..8ab5cf2 100644
--- a/qurator/dinglehopper/ocrd_cli.py
+++ b/qurator/dinglehopper/ocrd_cli.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from ocrd_utils import concat_padded, getLogger
 from pkg_resources import resource_string
 
 from qurator.dinglehopper.cli import process as cli_process
-from qurator.dinglehopper.edit_distance import _levenshtein_matrix
+from qurator.dinglehopper.edit_distance import levenshtein_matrix_cache_clear
 
 log = getLogger('processor.OcrdDinglehopperEvaluate')
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class OcrdDinglehopperEvaluate(Processor):
                      local_filename=report_prefix + report_suffix)
 
             # Clear cache between files
-            _levenshtein_matrix.cache_clear()
+            levenshtein_matrix_cache_clear()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':