This Python module helps with converting Advent of Code ASCII art letters into plain characters. At the moment, it only supports 6-pixel-tall characters as seen in 2016 Day 8, 2019 Days 8 and 11, and 2021 Day 13.
Support for 10-pixel-tall characters (2018 Day 10) is coming soon.
Put simply, it converts this to ABC
:
██ ███ ██
█ █ █ █ █ █
█ █ ███ █
████ █ █ █
█ █ █ █ █ █
█ █ ███ ██
This module can be installed from PyPI:
$ pip install advent-of-code-ocr
Using this module is pretty easy. By default, this module recognizes #
as a filled pixel and .
as an empty pixel. However, you can change this using the fill_pixel
and empty_pixel
keywork arguments respectively.
from advent_of_code_ocr import convert_6
print(convert_6(".##.\n#..#\n#..#\n####\n#..#\n#..#"))
# A
print(convert_6(" $$ \n$ $\n$ $\n$$$$\n$ $\n$ $", fill_pixel="$", empty_pixel=" "))
# A
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