Comments on: Using captchas to digitize old, damaged books http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/18/using-captchas-to-digitize-old-damaged-books/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:51:27 -0500 hourly 1 By: Jarett http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/18/using-captchas-to-digitize-old-damaged-books/comment-page-1/#comment-824049 Jarett Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:39:49 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=35103#comment-824049 It shows one word it know and one it doesn't. If you get the known word wrong, you fail the check. Oh, and this has been around for several months now. I expect the BBC News is behind the times, but I'm surprised that a bunch of tech bloggers haven't seen this yet. It shows one word it know and one it doesn’t. If you get the known word wrong, you fail the check.

Oh, and this has been around for several months now. I expect the BBC News is behind the times, but I’m surprised that a bunch of tech bloggers haven’t seen this yet.

]]> By: Chuck http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/18/using-captchas-to-digitize-old-damaged-books/comment-page-1/#comment-822200 Chuck Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:45:53 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=35103#comment-822200 Yeah, seems like it's an annoyance generator. The server can't know that you have entered the right letters, so it just stores your result, flags it as wrong and has you try again with a word it does know. We are indeed slaves to the machine. Yeah, seems like it’s an annoyance generator. The server can’t know that you have entered the right letters, so it just stores your result, flags it as wrong and has you try again with a word it does know. We are indeed slaves to the machine.

]]> By: plceli http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/18/using-captchas-to-digitize-old-damaged-books/comment-page-1/#comment-822081 plceli Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:20:22 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=35103#comment-822081 I don't get it. How the system is supposed to know that you entered the right thing if the system doesn't even know what it is supposed to be?? Of course as multiple person enter the same thing a common response emerge but it's not usable in Captcha context... I don’t get it. How the system is supposed to know that you entered the right thing if the system doesn’t even know what it is supposed to be??
Of course as multiple person enter the same thing a common response emerge but it’s not usable in Captcha context…

]]> By: Brian Fitzpatrick http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/18/using-captchas-to-digitize-old-damaged-books/comment-page-1/#comment-821988 Brian Fitzpatrick Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=35103#comment-821988 Between this and Amazon's Mechanical Turk project, it seems that mankind is providing more processing power to the Internet every day. :) Between this and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk project, it seems that mankind is providing more processing power to the Internet every day. :)

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