adventocr

Advent of Code Optical Character Recognition (adventocr)

Some Advent of Code puzzles provide visual outputs which must be converted into text. This package is a helper to automate this task.

Installation

pip install adventocr

Usage

An example puzzle output may look something like

word = [
    '#', '#', '#', '#', ' ', '#', '#', '#', '#', ' ',
    '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
    '#', '#', '#', ' ', ' ', '#', '#', '#', ' ', ' ',
    '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
    '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
    '#', '#', '#', '#', ' ', '#', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '
]

When tidied and printed, this appears to be

#### #### 
#    #    
###  ###  
#    #    
#    #    
#### #

This process can be automated through:

import adventocr
parsed = adventocr.word(word)
parsed

'EF'