Are You A Human?
We’ve gotten some complaints about our old Captcha (the “anti spam word”) from bona fide humans, so we modified our little (not-) Turing test. We are now using recaptcha. What’s cool about recaptcha is that every time you enter an “anti spam word,” you are doing a public service! Currently, there are number of efforts underway to scan and make accessible books that were written before the digital age. The bulk of that work is done by OCR software, but as every litigator knows, OCR software sucks still has room for improvement. Whenever the OCR software used by the Internet Archive’s book scanning project can’t read a word, it farms out the image to the recaptcha pool, which in turn sends it out to participating websites. Please let us know if the new system works better.
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