Google buys anti-spam service to help digitize books
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character recognition (OCR). The problem is that OCR is not perfect and sometimes is unable to read the words on the images. reCAPTCHAs services improve the process of digitizing books by sending images of words that ...

as well as improving the digitization of books. reCAPTCHA is a provider of CAPTCHA technology, which is often used by websites to ask the user to type letters or digits from a distorted image to tell ...

apply reCAPTCHAs technology not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process. Special Report: Global Financial Crisis ...

  Oct 04 2009