Extract digits from series of images

Huh, I'm more interested in the website itself (bountify). Posting little coding challenges for a payment is an awesome idea. My concern is that the payments offered on most of these projects is way too low. You could make more money serving fries for the same amount of time.

But I think the idea has a lot of potential.

Someone somewhere is probably trying to invert the blurring algorithm used on the check.

Blanking it out is far superior to blurring. If you know the kernel, partial deconvolution isn't impossible.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679801

I don't mean to be trite, but it would seem like the $5 is the part that's for the lulz.

Here is more background on the guy who posted this challenge. http://www.iamthespecialist.com/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JiJWn0hVMYm8X9a_oVvJ...

Slide 11

In my todo list there is a line for building one of those for the guys I just started working for. It will sms the number to the phone of the developer requestiong it. I will probably be using an old netbook, though.