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Google CAPTCHAs Scanning Tech

  • Googleblog, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:08 PM
Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, an open source provider of CAPTCHA's, or security questions that deter spam by requiring one to decipher jumbled words before, say, commenting on a blog post.

Google says the company's technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text -- known as Optical Character Recognition. Such technology might come in handy for, say, scanning entire libraries of books, or the archives of publishers.

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