Talk:reCAPTCHA

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2 July 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] AfDM

Why on earth would this article be deleted? It describes a real tool used by thousands (maybe millions) of people. The article should very much remain. --Thorwald 00:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Neither can I see a reason for deleting this article. And before deleting it completely, I'd merge it into Captcha. Glaubigern 11:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

This article looks like the features page of a product website. More information on its history, adoptation, etc. needs to be added htmnssn 05:08, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

As the creator of this article, I actually agree that it is spam...but I did not create it that way! When I created it, I made sure to write a whole section titled "Disadvantages". It was a specific anonymous user that censored that section and thus turned this article into an advertisement. You are welcome to restore that section. -Lwc4life (talk) 14:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Real?

What I wonder about: Why do the captchas look like ordinary captchas? If they are from digitized books, they shouldn't have those strokes in them.Or are the unrecognizable words additionally distorted?

Yes, more distortion is added. 201.212.190.133 (talk) 15:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Second thing I wonder about: How do they avoid using really unreadable words? A captcha used on a real page must be recognizable for the user in every case. But scanned text can be distorted to whatever degree.

I have seen really unreadable words. You just press Refresh to get a new one, or do your best try and get a new one if it's wrong. 201.212.190.133 (talk) 15:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

If Wikipedia wouldn't stress this is a reputable university project, I would have said, this is a spammer trying to trick people to solve captchas for them. Please enlight me. --::Slomox:: >< 23:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

If the example graphic is a real example, and the stroke through the middle and the waviness have been added, then it doesn't say much for state-of-the-art OCR that these words couldn't be automatically deciphered in their original state. I thought the technology was a lot better than that these days...!! Matt 22:50, 3 March 2008 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.110.150 (talk)

Here's a better question: If the word ends up in reCaptcha because it can't be recognized, how does the computer know if the user entered the word correctly or not? 129.2.231.243 (talk) 19:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] logo

they should have a logo on it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.10.113 (talk) 00:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)