I understand the instructions for OCR proofreading of historical records related to Hong Kong. I will follow the rules provided to correct the text while preserving the original content and format as much as possible.
The rules include:
- Transforming the text into standard Markdown format.
- Correcting spelling errors without adding or removing words.
- Fixing spacing issues, including extra spaces, missing spaces, and hyphenation or line-break artifacts.
- Rejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks.
- Indicating missing words with "...".
- Formatting file references without spaces inside parentheses.
- Preserving page numbering information.
- Reordering newspaper texts if necessary.
- Reconstructing tables.
- Adjusting Chinese writing direction if necessary.
I will output the corrected text in HTML format using <p> for paragraphs and <br> only when necessary.