From fa73ebede34a449f0e04ea7717491899440d1b5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Remo Senekowitsch Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 22:29:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ocr-numbers: Update docs --- .../ocr-numbers/.docs/instructions.md | 80 ++++++------------- .../ocr-numbers/.docs/introduction.md | 6 ++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) create mode 100644 exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/introduction.md diff --git a/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/instructions.md b/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/instructions.md index 7beb25779..8a391ce4f 100644 --- a/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/instructions.md +++ b/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/instructions.md @@ -1,79 +1,47 @@ # Instructions -Given a 3 x 4 grid of pipes, underscores, and spaces, determine which number is represented, or whether it is garbled. +Optical Character Recognition or OCR is software that converts images of text into machine-readable text. +Given a grid of characters representing some digits, convert the grid to a string of digits. +If the grid has multiple rows of cells, the rows should be separated in the output with a `","`. -## Step One +- The grid is made of one of more lines of cells. +- Each line of the grid is made of one or more cells. +- Each cell is three columns wide and four rows high (3x4) and represents one digit. +- Digits are drawn using pipes (`"|"`), underscores (`"_"`), and spaces (`" "`). -To begin with, convert a simple binary font to a string containing 0 or 1. +## Edge cases -The binary font uses pipes and underscores, four rows high and three columns wide. +- If the input is not a valid size, your program should indicate there is an error. +- If the input is the correct size, but a cell is not recognizable, your program should output a `"?"` for that character. -```text - _ # - | | # zero. - |_| # - # the fourth row is always blank -``` +## Examples -Is converted to "0" - -```text - # - | # one. - | # - # (blank fourth row) -``` - -Is converted to "1" - -If the input is the correct size, but not recognizable, your program should return '?' - -If the input is the incorrect size, your program should return an error. - -## Step Two - -Update your program to recognize multi-character binary strings, replacing garbled numbers with ? - -## Step Three - -Update your program to recognize all numbers 0 through 9, both individually and as part of a larger string. - -```text - _ - _| -|_ - -``` - -Is converted to "2" +The following input (without the comments) is converted to `"1234567890"`. ```text _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # - | _| _||_||_ |_ ||_||_|| | # decimal numbers. + | _| _||_||_ |_ ||_||_|| | # Decimal numbers. ||_ _| | _||_| ||_| _||_| # - # fourth line is always blank + # The fourth line is always blank, ``` -Is converted to "1234567890" - -## Step Four +The following input is converted to `"123,456,789"`. -Update your program to handle multiple numbers, one per line. -When converting several lines, join the lines with commas. + ```text - _ _ + _ _ | _| _| ||_ _| - - _ _ -|_||_ |_ + + _ _ +|_||_ |_ | _||_| - - _ _ _ + + _ _ _ ||_||_| ||_| _| - + ``` -Is converted to "123,456,789". + diff --git a/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..366d76062 --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/practice/ocr-numbers/.docs/introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# Introduction + +Your best friend Marta recently landed their dream job working with a local history museum's collections. +Knowing of your interests in programming, they confide in you about an issue at work for an upcoming exhibit on computing history. +A local university's math department had donated several boxes of historical printouts, but given the poor condition of the documents, the decision has been made to digitize the text. +However, the university's old printer had some quirks in how text was represented, and your friend could use your help to extract the data successfully.