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-python-zxing - a quick and dirty wrapper fo the [ZXing barcode library](http://code.google.com/p/zxing/)
+python-zxing - a quick and dirty wrapper for the [ZXing barcode library](http://code.google.com/p/zxing/)
 
 This is a hack subprocess control library that gives you a reasonable Python interface to the ZXing command line.  ZXing will recognize and decode 1D and 2D
 barcodes in images, and return position information and decoded values.  This