Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing..... Someone should tell the church ;) Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas to blogs, and pay people for using the captcha....
On 10/2/07, Jon D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an idea... > Some of you may have seen today's (and previous) > Slashdot links on reCaptcha, a cool idea > that's starting to be more commonly-used: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7023627.stm > http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html > > Basically they're using a CAPTCHA to digitize old > scanned books.[1] > > This could be applied to handwritten historic records. > However, it might be hard to trust regular schmoes to > correctly transcribe handwritten historic texts. One > way to address this might be to just ask more people > the same word, and if they all (or mostly) match, we > can be fairly certain it's transcribed correctly. > Or this could just be used to verify a previous manual > transcription. > > Thoughts? > > -Jon > > > > [1] FYI, a CAPTCHA is where you have to type > a distorted word - to stop spammers & hackers. For > example, when you mistype your password to enter gmail > or yahoo mail enough times, it'll require you to type > in a word that's blurred. The new application of this > anti-spam technique is to use scanned books as the > source of words. > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search > that gives answers, not web links. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
