Sep 29 2008
reCAPTCHA and helping with ebooks
Not that I like OCR or anything, but I came across reCAPTCHA while fixing up another website that has apparently gotten noticed by spammers (boo trashing a wiki!). It’s a verification plugin that has you type in verifying words that come from OCR’d media from, say, Archive.org, so when you verify you’re not a spammer you’re also helping scan in a digital text accurately. A useful two seconds spent killing two birds with one stone, and there are plugins and extensions for various languages and software. Here’s a list of their plugins; I used the MediaWiki one, and I’m going to put the WordPress one on here after this post.
