-- Steve's encountered Greek and Cyrillic re-Captchas before... seriously, guys, at least look at the language settings for the browser before firing off non-Latin characters, would'ya?
No, that's not how it works. An automated system is passed the pages that have been scanned, and it performs recognition on those pages. Any words that it has a low confidence threshold on are automatically sent to Recaptcha so that they can be crowdsourced. The only point at which a human being will look at the word is if the crowdsourcing doesn't reach a consensus on what the word is (in this case, the word will almost certainly qualify).
And this means you don't have to get the scanned word completely right. If your guess is somewhere in the right ballpark with other people's guesses, you pass.
A lot of the time I can't read the doubled doubled-letter style we see on the right here, or at least can't confidently decide between two or more letters. It's been bugging me regularly for the last couple of weeks.
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-- Steve's encountered Greek and Cyrillic re-Captchas before... seriously, guys, at least look at the language settings for the browser before firing off non-Latin characters, would'ya?
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so if the majority who get that bit of weirdness type in Cthulu it will show up as Cthulu in the book thats being scanned and OCR'd.
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But you'd think that they'd make sure that the scanned bit was actually a word, and not something untypable.
*I remember reading about some internet group (I assume anonymous) gaming a bunch of recaptchas that some time was using, so they could win a poll.
Edit: Aha! http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
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* Rather than my usual reason for asking for audio captchas, which is I DON'T SEE ANY WORDS HERE.
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