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 # Elastic Open Web Crawler
 
 This repository contains code for the Elastic Open Web Crawler.
-This is a tool to allow users to ingest content into Elasticsearch easily from the web.
+This is a tool to allow users to easily ingest content into Elasticsearch from the web.
 
 ## How it works
 
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 1. Build the image `docker build -t crawler .`
 2. Run the container `docker run -i -d crawler crawler`
    - `-i` allows the container to stay alive so CLI commands can be executed inside it
-   - `-d` allows the container to run "detached" so you don't have to dedicated a terminal window to it
+   - `-d` allows the container to run "detached" so you don't have to dedicate a terminal window to it
 
 #### Running from source