Thanx Hena. I will try what you suggest and see if it reduces processing time sufficiently.

As for your assumtions, a sample replacement patterns list (REGEX) could be:

\b([a-z])([a-z]*)ung\b    \u$1\l$2ung
Treecontrol    Tree Control
[Tt]abreiter    Reiterelement
[Tt]ile    Teilbild
[download]

And a sample input text (INPUT) for the replacements could be:

Die Segnung ist gestern erfolgt.
Die segnung ist gestern erfolgt.
Die Rechnung wird geschickt.
Die rechnung wird geschickt.
Die Treecontrol.
Die Tabreiter.
Die tabreiter.
Die Tile.
Die tile.
[download]

I wonder if this changes anything in what you suggest...

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