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Re:Show HN: Comntr – a widget that adds comments to your page by georgyo on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:56AM (#20382301)
You said SVG twice now, but I don't see what is obvious about it.

It's an XML document that should be easier to figure out than a raster image format such as jpg or png.

Re:Show HN: Comntr – a widget that adds comments to your page by comntr on Monday July 08, 2019 @01:20PM (#20384652)
The catch is that the text will be represented as small geometric svg shapes, so the spammer will need to first render the svg to png and then run text recognition tools. But in that svg we can easily add some css animations that make sure the entire image is never rendered, so spammers will need to run the entire browser to take screenshots and will need to assemble the image from multiple frames.
Re:Show HN: Comntr – a widget that adds comments to your page by swiley on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:08AM (#20382812)
Won’t it have to be converted to a raster image before it can be OCRd?

Granted all you need to do is render it to a canvas but that’s an extra step on top of everything you need for a raster image, I’m not sure it’s easier.

Re:Show HN: Comntr – a widget that adds comments to your page by comntr on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:17AM (#20388985)
And just rendering to canvas may be very tricky if the captcha is animated with css, i.e. it moves a bit and different parts of it appear at different times.