Re: Turing Keys once again.
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:06:33 -0500 (CDT)
It would require not only OCR capability, but a system of thwarting a
system designed to thwart OCR capability ... if that makes any sense.
Bruce
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, K. Washington wrote:
> Hello. Sorry if this topic has been covered in the past, but I'm not able
> to follow the list as closely as I should.
>
> I come across many web sites daily that require member's to sign in using
> their username, password and a randomly generated number embedded in a
> graphic (Turing key). JAWS can not read the number contained in this
> graphic of course.
>
> Is there any 3rd party program or means of having this graphic converted to
> text, so that JAWS can read it in the web page? Is FS working on a way
> that the Virtual Viewer can do this?
>
> Printing the web page out and scanning it into a OCR program to find out
> what the numbers or letters contained in the image is takes way too much time.
>
> I'm using Windows XP Home Edition (SP2) and JAWS 6.10.106 along with a
> Triple Talk USB hardware Synth.
>
> Surprised with all the knowledgeable people who monitor this list daily, no
> one has created some sort of program that can work with these
> graphics. Seems to me it only requires examining the .gif image for a
> certain letter or number pixel pattern and converting it to the text
> equivalent.
>
>
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