G-WAN Captcha Decode

Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by 3JPLW on Thursday June 14, 2012 @06:03PM (#4113763)

No, he just hard-coded the number shapes. As long as the numbers used the same font as the example (and don't overlap), it should work just fine.

OCR would probably be more robust in general (for varying fonts and number shapes)... but it's simply absurd to call G-WAN's scheme a better captcha. More obscure and less targeted? Perhaps.

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Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by samuirai on Thursday June 14, 2012 @06:06PM (#4113772)

I thought about using OCR - just to over-engineer it. But I wanted to show how the characters are perfectly aligned and how clear the font is. I would like to understand, what he thought, why this Captcha is so special.

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Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by merlincorey on Thursday June 14, 2012 @06:12PM (#4113795)

I need two more points to make up for the haters.

Come find us?

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Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by ers35 on Thursday June 14, 2012 @07:22PM (#4114091)

Both you and the OP have misunderstood the purpose of the CAPTCHA example. See my post[1] for an explanation.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113826

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Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by Uchikoma on Friday June 15, 2012 @12:52AM (#4115070)

Why don't you identify yourself as the author?

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Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by ers35 on Friday June 15, 2012 @01:19AM (#4115159)

I am not the author. For "proof", see my many conversations on the G-WAN forum.[1]

[1]http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/profile/discussions/1053/...

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Re:G-WAN Captcha Decode by Ygg2 on Friday June 15, 2012 @02:25AM (#4115310)

I don't think he is. I read the G-WAN authors replies. The author doesn't have as good grasp of English and he sounds way crazier.

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