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: Mr. Gee had invested one thousand two hundred pounds of this, and was seeking how best to place the remaining eight hundred pounds,

SOLUTION: Mr. Gee had invested £1200 of this, and was seeking how best to place the remaining £800,

PROBLEM: that the committee of eighteen sixty three fully endorsed Sir Joshua's recommendations as regards a "hard bed," and recommended that

SOLUTION: that the committee of 1863 fully endorsed Sir Joshua's recommendations as regards a "hard bed," and recommended that

PROBLEM: Closer investigation proved that it belonged to the trunk already discovered on the second February.

SOLUTION:
Closer investigation proved that it belonged to the trunk already discovered on the 2nd February.