nanscan/NanScan/Hamming.py

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Python

# Copyright (C) 2008 by Albert Cervera i Areny
# albert@nan-tic.com
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the
# Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
# 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
from Translator import *
## @brief This class calculates the Hamming distance between two strings.
#
# When two given characters differ completely they add 2 to the final distance
# between the strings. Two 'similar' characters (defined by the given translator
# or the default translator if none specified) will add 1 and 0 for two
# identical characters.
#
# This distinction of 'similar' and 'different' characters can be useful to
# 'correct' OCR defects.
class Hamming:
## @brief Calculates Hamming distance between two strings. Optionally a
# translator can be provieded. A default translator will be used if none
# specified.
@staticmethod
def hamming( text1, text2, translator = None ):
if not translator:
translator = Translator()
transText1 = translator.translated( text1 )
transText2 = translator.translated( text2 )
value = 0
size = min(len(text1), len(text2))
for i in range(size):
if text1[i] == text2[i]:
continue
if transText1[i] == transText2[i]:
value += 1
continue
value += 2
# Note that we need to multiply by 2 because 'errors' weight 2
# and 'semi-errors' weight 1
value += abs( len(text1) - len(text2) ) * 2
return value
if __name__ == '__main__':
print Hamming.hamming( 'si', '$l' )
print Hamming.hamming( 'abc', 'abc' )
print Hamming.hamming( 'abcabc', 'abc' )
print Hamming.hamming( 'abcdef', 'abc' )
print Hamming.hamming( 'abcdef', 'bcd' )
print Hamming.hamming( 'bcdef', 'abc' )
for x in range(10000):
Hamming.hamming( 'text de la plantilla', 'text llarg que pot ser del document que tractem actualment' )