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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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Anti-Spam Turing Test Is Really Global Human-Powered OCR System

11:25PM Wilson Rothman | You know the test you have to take on Digg or Facebook, the one that proves you’re a human? You see a hard-to-read word or string of gibberish, and you type in the correct characters. Carnegie Mellon researchers decided to replace randomly generated words with actual words from ancient manuscripts, words that machines are having trouble deciphering. When you or millions of other users type in a word, you are beating a machine and helping to preserve an irreplaceable text. More »
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Friday, August 3, 2007
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IRISPen 6 Eats Printed Words, Regurgitates Digital Text

10:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | The latest IRISPen portable OCR scanner is ready to scoop up all the text you can throw at it. Just slide the pen over your text source and the magical goblins inside the pen convert it and toss it right into your favourite word processor. It will recognise any of 128 languages and the upgraded Translator version even offers to-and-from translations between eleven major languages. The Executive version offers a barcode scanner, but it won’t translate, so your business had better be monolingual. $US129 will net you the basic Express model while you’ll need to shell out $US149 and $US199 for the Translator and Executive versions, respectively. [IRISPen 6 via Electronista] More »
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