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Check out webvisum.com - from their website: "WebVisum is a unique browser add on which greatly enhances web accessibility and empowers the blind and visually

by martin_ 12y ago

Check out webvisum.com - from their website: "WebVisum is a unique browser add on which greatly enhances web accessibility and empowers the blind and visually impaired community by putting the control in your hands!" "Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving, sign up to web sites and make forum posts and blog comments without asking for help!"

ademarre 12y ago
> Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving How do they do that? This sounds like whitehat use of blackhat tools. Are they using captcha-solving farms?
- logn 12y ago
  They send the captcha to their servers and how they solve them is a secret. http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15 http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15
  - ademarre 12y ago
    The fact that this works shows that distorted-text captchas are no longer effective. From the Google's blog post: > our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy
  - walterbell 12y ago
    Is there a web service where one could purchase AI recognition of fuzzy text, e.g. a street sign or book cover in a photo?
    - logn 12y ago
      http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ http://www.captchasniper.com/ http://www.captchasniper.com/ http://captcha-breaker.gsa-online.de/ http://captcha-breaker.gsa-online.de/ http://textcaptcha.com/ http://textcaptcha.com/
      - walterbell 12y ago
        Very helpful, thank you! I have a difficult OCR problem to solve, rather than identity. Interesting to see that the market price for "being human" is $0.00139.
        logn 12y ago
        For non-captcha OCR also consider Mechanical Turk. And there are a variety of services built on Turk too.
- ertdfgcb 12y ago
  There are ways to solve captchas somewhat reliably programatically. I suspect this plugin only works on certain computer generated captchas, not the street sign ones. http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automated-captcha-solving/ http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automa...
fmx 12y ago
I was curious about the CAPTCHA solving, too, so I tested WebVivum out on ~8 reCAPTCHAs.[1] It solved all except 2 of them, taking 20-60 seconds each time. In 2 cases it reported failing to solve the CAPTCHA, but it never gave an incorrect result. That is, whenever it gave a solution the solution was correct (in my brief test). So, while it's some way off their claim of "instant" CAPTCHA solving, this is definitely a very useful addon, especially for those people who cannot solve CAPTCHAs at all. Thank you for pointing it out. [1]https://www.webscript.io/examples/recaptcha https://www.webscript.io/examples/recaptcha

by martin_ 12y ago

ademarre 12y ago

> Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving How do they do that? This sounds like whitehat use of blackhat tools. Are they using captcha-solving farms?

logn 12y ago
They send the captcha to their servers and how they solve them is a secret. http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15 http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15
- ademarre 12y ago
  The fact that this works shows that distorted-text captchas are no longer effective. From the Google's blog post: > our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy
- walterbell 12y ago
  Is there a web service where one could purchase AI recognition of fuzzy text, e.g. a street sign or book cover in a photo?
  - logn 12y ago
    http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ http://www.captchasniper.com/ http://www.captchasniper.com/ http://captcha-breaker.gsa-online.de/ http://captcha-breaker.gsa-online.de/ http://textcaptcha.com/ http://textcaptcha.com/
    - walterbell 12y ago
      Very helpful, thank you! I have a difficult OCR problem to solve, rather than identity. Interesting to see that the market price for "being human" is $0.00139.
      - logn 12y ago
        For non-captcha OCR also consider Mechanical Turk. And there are a variety of services built on Turk too.
ertdfgcb 12y ago
There are ways to solve captchas somewhat reliably programatically. I suspect this plugin only works on certain computer generated captchas, not the street sign ones. http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automated-captcha-solving/ http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automa...

fmx 12y ago

I was curious about the CAPTCHA solving, too, so I tested WebVivum out on ~8 reCAPTCHAs.[1] It solved all except 2 of them, taking 20-60 seconds each time. In 2 cases it reported failing to solve the CAPTCHA, but it never gave an incorrect result. That is, whenever it gave a solution the solution was correct (in my brief test). So, while it's some way off their claim of "instant" CAPTCHA solving, this is definitely a very useful addon, especially for those people who cannot solve CAPTCHAs at all. Thank you for pointing it out. [1]https://www.webscript.io/examples/recaptcha https://www.webscript.io/examples/recaptcha