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 * <copyright> Copyright 2006 by Know-Center, Graz, Austria </copyright>
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 * joint initiative of the Federal Chancellery Austria and Graz University of
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 * $Id: Normalize.java,v 1.2 2006/05/15 12:05:21 wlackner Exp $
 */
package at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.tools;


/**
 * Defines an interface to get access to different normalizer implementations.
 * 
 * @author wlackner
 */
public interface Normalize {

  /**
   * Normalize a given text.
   * @param rawText the raw text to normalize
   * @param keepMultipleLineBreaks if true multiple line breaks in a row will not be normalized to a single line break
   * @return the normalized string
   */
  public String normalize(String rawText, boolean keepMultipleLineBreaks);
  /**
   * Return the current normalizer version string.
   * @return the version string
   */
  public String getVersion();
  
  /**
   * Returns the normalizer line separator string.
   * @return the line separator string
   */
  public String getNormCR();

}