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 # Little CAT Tools
 
-This repository is intended to host scripts written to simplify various repetitive or tedious tasks involving CAT tools, mostly in terms of handing the files used or generated by such tools.
+This repository contains scripts intended to facilitate various repetitive or tedious tasks involving CAT tools or related translation tasks. They mostly cover the handling of files used or generated by such tools.
 
-Many of the scripts presented here are newly rewritten, improved (hopefully!), and more generally applicable versions based on my memory (and sometimes a few notes) of quick and dirty scripts I'd made at work a few years ago. A few are completely new, based on ideas I'd been wanting to try but never had the chance to work on.
+The majority of tools presented here draw on quick-and-dirty scripts I hacked together some time ago to address an immediate need. They have been rewritten from scratch to removed copy-and-pasted duplicate code and hardcoded information that should either be in a configuration file or obtained from the user. As such they are as much of a personal learning experiment as they are tools providing a useful, if limited, function.
 
 Descriptions of the individual scripts can, for the time being, be found in the README in their subfolder.