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Re:Scrape like the big boys by blueboo on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:30PM (#29125844)
Even if your DOM is obfuscated, the rendered page remains vulnerable to OCR. Obfuscate the rendered pixels and you’ll annoy your humans and eventually find that the scrapers’ OCR is superhuman.

Still, maybe AI comes into it. Maybe poisoning the data is the right way to do it conditioned on ML-juiced anomaly detection.

Re:Scrape like the big boys by Lifelarper on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:59AM (#29130748)
pdf and print newspaper is still a massive pain in the ass to OCR accurately