[ner.edith](https://github.com/cneud/ner.edith) is a simple, browser-based tool for editing and annotating text with named entities to produce a corpus for training/testing/evaluation. It can be used to either add or correct named entity BIO-tags in a TSV file and to correct the token text and or segmentation (e.g. due to OCR errors). [ner.edith](https://github.com/cneud/ner.edith) is developed at the Berlin State Library for data annotation in the context of the [SoNAR-IDH](https://sonar.fh-potsdam.de/) project and the [QURATOR](https://qurator.ai/) project.
### 2. User Guide
#### Technical Requirements
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* merging two tokens
* splitting a token
#### Data export/Saving progress
The editor runs fully locally in the browser. Therefore it can not automatically save any changes you made to disk. You have to use the `Save Changes` button in order to so manually from time to time.
[ner.edith](https://github.com/cneud/ner.edith) runs fully locally in the browser. Therefore it can not automatically save any changes you made to disk. You have to use the `Save Changes` button in order to so manually from time to time.
If your browser automatically saves all downloads to your `Downloads` folder, you might want to configure it so that it instead prompts you where to save.