Tag: BOOK-SCANNING

You know those tests that you have to fill out when signing up for new web services? The ones that ask you to enter the text you see in a box to prove that you're human? Those are called CAPTCHAs. And a company called reCAPTCHA does something really interesting with them. It finds hard-to-read text scanned from old newspapers and books. Because the ink and paper isn't in such good shape, ...