Tag: RECAPTCHA

If you're not a developer, you're probably not aware that Google Docs has an API available for various document-related services. Recently Google added a new feature that allows developers to create applications that will pass an image-based (.png, .jpg, or .gif) document to the API, and using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, generate and pass back an editable text-based document. ...

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, ...

Looking for a way to post your email address online, but don't relish the idea of spambots picking up your address and sending you email ads for Viagra and anatomical enhancement pills? ReCAPTCHA Mailhide provides a simple tool for obscuring your email address. All you have to do is enter your email address (and hope that the folks behind Mailhide aren't doing anything nefarious with it), and ...

If you've had a blog for any length of time, you've probably been assaulted with blog comment spam. Users of WordPress have the fantastic Akismet spam filtering tool freely available to them by Automattic, the makers of WordPress. But while Akismet is good (really good), it's not perfect. If you have been using Akismet, but are still seeing too many spam messages slipping through, consider ...