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> Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving

How do they do that? This sounds like whitehat use of blackhat tools. Are they using captcha-solving farms?

There are ways to solve captchas somewhat reliably programatically. I suspect this plugin only works on certain computer generated captchas, not the street sign ones.

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automa...

They send the captcha to their servers and how they solve them is a secret.

http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15

The fact that this works shows that distorted-text captchas are no longer effective.

From the Google's blog post:

> our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy

Is there a web service where one could purchase AI recognition of fuzzy text, e.g. a street sign or book cover in a photo?

http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/

http://www.captchasniper.com/

http://captcha-breaker.gsa-online.de/

http://textcaptcha.com/

Very helpful, thank you! I have a difficult OCR problem to solve, rather than identity. Interesting to see that the market price for "being human" is $0.00139.

For non-captcha OCR also consider Mechanical Turk. And there are a variety of services built on Turk too.

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