Ok, so I’m trying to register on peticular web forum, and to register, I need to verify the letters and numbers of the image to proceed. Except I don’t know what the frickin’ characters are. Why do they make these things complicated to read? I mean it’s only an image. Does it really need to be hard to read to prevent register bots? Bots cannot read images, so I don’t see the reason to make them complicated to read. I’ve seen them with goofy backrounds, like graph paper, with funny fonts (fish eye fonts). Anyway, can someone tell me what this reads? It’s the same image every time I try to register… Stupid image.
I cannot guess the second character. I’ve tried ‘q’ and ‘9’. And I’ve tried it case sensitive too. I’ve even tried another ‘g’. Nothing.
Of course they can. That’s called OCR. (Optical Character Recognition).
The second letter looks like either a q or an a to me. The better versions of these systems have a word to recognize, rather than random letters. That makes it much easier.
It’s totally a q … if you’re entering q and it’s not accepting it, can you try again and get a new image? I dunno, probably some browser weirdness going on there.
Are you sure that it is the second letter that is bouncing you out?
I get:
g q Z P H q H C
Are you correctly entering the case? two lower, three upper, one lower, two upper?
If the alphabet was Greek, the lower case g and q would not be valid, although the upper case letters all have corresponding shapes (with different values) in those alphabets: Z = Z, P = R, H = long E. Cyrillic has no Z shape, either.
I’d suggest turning it over, but the reversed C would render the “_ H b H d Z b 6” invalid.
Yeah, I tried it case sensitive, just as it was. I tried ‘q’, ‘9’ and now an ‘a’. So I don’t know. They really should use a word instead of random letters, especially when they’re cut off.
I was finally able to get a different image with all the letters in view. Just had to keep hitting refresh about 10 times and a different came up. friedo, I learn something new everyday.
Yes, but OCR relies in having clear, simple character images on a plain background. Unusual fonts, patterned backgrounds or highly stylized characters all make OCR virtually useless.
