Solving 5th grade math with F# and OCR
summary
Pair-programmed solution converts a photographed worksheet into numbers, parses table cells and returns the largest value per cell column; it uses F# for parsing and aggregation and Tesseract OCR with a .NET wrapper to extract text. Code handles Norwegian decimal commas and skips blank lines; the full pipeline is implemented in a few dozen lines and produces correct max values for each subtable, turning a repetitive fifth‑grade assignment into an automated, working result.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26Steve Jobs quote
- 1:00Estonia
- 2:09Ride Against the Numbers
- 2:42Scratch
- 3:10Code Combat
- 3:53Programming Language
- 4:32Task
- 5:17OCR
- 5:36Tesseract
- 5:48Wrapper
- 7:28Parse
- 8:16Result
- 9:18Twitter
- 9:41Instagram
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