Archive for October 2nd, 2007
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Human OCR and CAPTCHA
Carnegie Mellon is doing an experiment that will use CAPTCHA as a sort of Human OCR. (CAPTCHA refers to those characters that you have to type when creating an account like on Yahoo to prove that you are human. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha And OCR refers to Optical Character Recognition or a way of digitizing printed materials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition)
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