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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by AdieuToLogic on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:36PM (#42745597)
> I would challenge you to find a picture of text that you think a human can read and OCR cannot.

Are you aware of CAPTCHA[0] images?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by jahewson on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:40PM (#42745616)
Solvable with the right tools.

https://github.com/noCaptchaAi/NoCaptcha-Ai-Browser-Extensio...

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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by AdieuToLogic on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:36PM (#42745874)
> Solvable with the right tools.

The original assertion was:

  I would challenge you to find a picture of text
  that you think a human can read and OCR cannot.
Not if many CAPTCHA image challenges could be automated. Unless the tool referenced guarantees 100% correct solutions for all manipulated text images.
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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by CamperBob2 on Saturday January 18, 2025 @01:44PM (#42750377)
The AI models are now better at CAPTCHAs than I am, for both text- and image-based questions. But when confronted with a CAPTCHA, humans work for free, and the models don't. :(

As long as that's the case, CAPTCHAs probably won't be considered truly obsolete.

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Re:Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archi... by jncfhnb on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:58AM (#42746671)
Text that is _intentionally constructed_ to fool computers but not humans is obviously out of scope. But they’re generally easily solved with OCR these days anyway.
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