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Next-gen captcha aids digitization

Fri, 2007/05/25 - 2:52am — mark

As noted on Slashdot today, Network World has an article on the work of a Carnegie Mellon researcher who is developing an anti-spam technology that requires humans to enter hard-to-OCR text on web forms to demonstrate they are not spambots. reCAPTCHA provides plugins for WordPress, MediaWiki, and phpBB and also a web service. The Internet Archive is already benefiting from the output created by reCAPTCHA.

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Mon, 2007/05/28 - 7:29pm — reCAPTCHA: crowdsourcing transcription comes to life - Spell (not verified)

[...] With a tag-line like

[...] With a tag-line like ‘Stop Spam, Read Books’ - how can you not love reCAPTCHA? You might have already read about it on Boing Boing , NetworkWorld.com or digitizationblog - but I just couldn’t let it go by without talking about it. [...]