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I can no longer solve ReCAPTHCA captchas

For a time there were lots of number based captchas on ReCAPTCHA using sites - presumably for Google Maps - but now they all appear to be a random mixture of letters. I can not solve them.

They're things like "rnmnnihmr" which is barely legible in plain text but when obfuscated - grunged, blurred and waved - I find it's taking about 8 tries before I guess the answer correctly.

Reportedly there are bots getting 90% correct.

Mainly this is just a statement of frustration but in part it's a question of "doesn't this mean we've largely solved OCR now?".

[I think the last time ReCAPTCHA was discussed was this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6615326.]

53 points pbhjpbhj 12 years ago 66 comments

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