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-The hit counter script extracts fragments hits from a catalogue. For each fragment in the catalogue the documents starting with `BC` are collected and saved to the database under `uncuratedReferences` property as a list of objects with "File name" column without extension and quotes as `document` and the list of pages from the "Page" as integers as `pages`.
+The script extracts fragments references from a catalogue. For each fragment in the catalogue the documents not starting with `BC` are collected and saved to the database under `uncuratedReferences` property as a list of objects with "File name" column without extension and quotes as `document` and the list of pages from the "Page" as integers as `pages`.
 
 
 Usage:
@@ -54,6 +54,6 @@ The fragment ID is parsed from the file name:
 - `AA-BB-CC 0DD.csv.csv` => `18AA,<BB padded to to digits><CC padded to two digits>.<DD without leading zeroes>`
 - `AA-BB-CC,DD.csv` => `18AA,<BB padded to to digits><CC padded to two digits>.<DD without leading zeroes>`
 
-Hits from different files resulting in same fragment ID are summed for the final result.
+References from different files resulting in same fragment ID are combined for the final result.
 
 If the file name does not match any pattern the file is ignored.