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Title: Been annoyed by those squiggly words?
Post by Dickie Mint on Oct 16^th, 2009, 4:58pm

Found this on the Sagazone forum;

Luis von Ahn, the creator of reCAPTCHA, gives a great talk on how his invention is helping to digitize old manuscripts.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Great-funny-talk-on-reCAPTCHA-11-50

It's a bit geeky, but fascinating.

EDIT 16/10 1915 : Even this site could help. By using reCAPTCHA before posts are allowed spam attacks and hacks like we had before can be banished. Webmaster read
http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html