Random thought: Why can\'t strange curvy letters be automatically read?
 

A post in Internet gambling has led me to think, why can't strange curvy letters be automatically detected by OCR technology? Surely this is a trivial image processing problem isn't it? Such technology is frequently used to prevent the automated bots from mass registering free e-mail accounts and the such.

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they can be. but it's not trivial to program it into your pokerbot, which is why party has added their new thingy.

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A post in Internet gambling has led me to think, why can't strange curvy letters be automatically detected by OCR technology? Surely this is an enormously difficult image processing problem isn't it? Such technology is frequently used to prevent the automated bots from mass registering free e-mail accounts and the such.

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FYP.

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They also have a few extra lines and whatnot through them don't they?

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a bot can read this stuff, which is why you have gradually seen these scribbly lines get more and more complicated to read within the past couple of years. they used to be a little distored, now they are barely readable by human eye. a bot can certainly be programmed to read these things, but whether one has been programmed and whether its been circulated yet i dont know.

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a bot can certainly be programmed to read these things, but whether one has been programmed and whether its been circulated yet i dont know.

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You are an idiot. Where do all of these idiots come from?

cheers
Boon

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which is why you have gradually seen these scribbly lines get more and more complicated to read within the past couple of years. they used to be a little distored, now they are barely readable by human eye

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I might be in trouble soon, it often take me two or three tries to get it right becasue there is always a letter or two I can't make out.

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Why exactly is he an idiot? For thinking a bot can read many of them or because he doesn't know if there is code circulating?

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Why exactly is he an idiot? For thinking a bot can read many of them or because he doesn't know if there is code circulating?

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He is an idiot for stating in a trivial way that it is easy to program around a CAPTCHA. There are projects involved which have only had some success against weaker CAPTCHA algorithms.



cheers
Boon

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Why exactly is he an idiot? For thinking a bot can read many of them or because he doesn't know if there is code circulating?

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He is an idiot. A CAPTCHA cannot be programmed around.


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I must be some kind of super-idiot because I don't even know what a CAPTCHA is.