Posted by Raj Shekhar on 08/25/05 08:23

Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't really like CAPTCHA's. I'm filtering the content now, which is
> in my opinion better anyway. In my university one of the computer
> science projects (for an assignment!) is to break CAPTCHA's. Jpg-> bmp
> and once it's a bmp the white noise and lines can be removed (think
> photoshop filters), then OCR software extracts the words. It even
> works on squiggly text with the right fonts installed in the OCR. Not
> 100%, but it is easier for the computer to decipher than a handicapped
> person, or a text browser. And I don't want to lock those out.

you might find http://www.videolan.org/pwntcha/ helpful


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