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Originally Posted by DaveSawers
Now however, there's reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books a service that sends out hard to read words from old books and articles that OCR has trouble with and uses the results to digitize the original work. |
If OCR has not already been able to digitize the words, then how can the respondent's entry be validated? Answer - it can't. And, if it could, then the pretense of ones "helping" to transcribe old books falls apart. However, the thought that they are "helping a good cause" does serve to take the edge off of some folks sense of annoyance.
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Originally Posted by DaveSawers
Anyone had any experience using them?
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TicketMaster switched to such. All one need do is to "guess" closely enough.