adventocr 0.1

Parsing text output for Advent of Code puzzles

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'