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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Evaluation with mAPK can be used by running the eval_mpk.py script.
 ```Script to evaluate prediction in COCO format using the mAPK metric.
 Usage: python eval_mapk.py [json_prediction_path] [json_annotation_path]
 Paths can be absolute, relative to the script or relative to the respective json/gts or json/preds directory.
-    -h, --help\tdisplay this help message and exit
+    -h, --help  display this help message and exit
 ```
 
 We provide in this repo one annotation and one prediction file. To evaluate these predictions, run: