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 If you run into any issues please check out [this](https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract/wiki/Errors) wiki page which details a number common issues and some potential solutions.
 
+## Note for contributors
+
+Please create your pull requests to target the "develop" branch. "Master" is only for released code. Thank you.
+
 ## License
 
 Copyright 2012 Charles Weld.