I have over 3gb of memory used by "other" How do I find out what that is?

on my Ipad I have just ove 3GB of space which is taken up bu "other" I do not know what this is or how to reduce this usage. Please help

This indicates corrupt file(s). It is normally less than 1 GB.
A restore should resolve.

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my iPad has over 5GB of memory used for "other." What is this and can I reduce size?
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