TASK DEFINITION: The task is to read a passage and convert numbers in their text forms into digit forms. The text numbers can be used to represent Quantity, Dates and Time, Addresses or Positions.
PROBLEM: Oswald was five foot nine inches, slender and twenty four years old.

SOLUTION: Oswald was 5 foot 9 inches, slender and 24 years old.

PROBLEM: It is clear that the note was written while the Oswalds were living in Dallas before they moved to New Orleans in the spring of nineteen sixty three.

SOLUTION: It is clear that the note was written while the Oswalds were living in Dallas before they moved to New Orleans in the spring of 1963.

PROBLEM: This, with a scheme for limiting the jail to untried prisoners, had been urgently recommended by Lord John Russell in eighteen thirty.

SOLUTION:
This, with a scheme for limiting the jail to untried prisoners, had been urgently recommended by Lord John Russell in 1830.