reCAPTCHA

Via Tikirobot, reCAPTCHA. Brilliant:

Over 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved every day by people around the world. reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive. When you solve a reCAPTCHA, you help preserve literature by deciphering a word that was not readable by computers.

Why didn’t I think of that?

2 comments

  1. Joey Hess May 24

    Nice idea, but it uses javascript. Sighugh.

  2. Chris Lawrence May 24

    It looks like there’s a NOSCRIPT alternative; I suppose the truly paranoid could just use the NOSCRIPT version, albeit with potentially a bit less security.

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