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  • Q QuiJohn

    Did you test it against OCR software? I've seen some that it seems to me could be deciphered by OCR fairly easily. Otherwise, the only time I loathe them is when they defeat my botnets from creating unlimited facebook accounts.


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    NormDroid
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    David Kentley wrote:

    Did you test it against OCR software? I've seen some that it seems to me could be deciphered by OCR fairly easily

    Nope, I reckon you could crack it, but it's not really going to be exposed to the general population, so I'm not too worried about OCR.

    Two heads are better than one.

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      I hope mine isn't I've gone for: Diagnoal Hatched Backgroud (Light Gray) Mixed Upper and Lower (no numberics) Text rotated at -45 +45 degrees (non centered). Steel Blue text. You can choose any number of characters you want to generate and the control is scalable with our worrying on font sizes / spacing etc.

      Two heads are better than one.

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      Mark_Wallace
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      Have you excluded letters that look similar whether upper or lower case, and zeros, ones, i, l, o, etc? If you haven't, it's a guaranteed PITA.

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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      • N NormDroid

        Here ya go. Captcha[^]

        Two heads are better than one.

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        Amar Chaudhary
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        Just make sure it is not case sensitive.

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        • N NormDroid

          Just finished implementing a Captcha Control in SilverLight... Do you love or loath Captchas?

          Two heads are better than one.

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          Indivara
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          Your captcha looks OK. Now c(r)aptchas like this I loath http://www.narnio.com/2010/08/20/leaving-linkedin/[^] X|

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          • M Mark_Wallace

            Have you excluded letters that look similar whether upper or lower case, and zeros, ones, i, l, o, etc? If you haven't, it's a guaranteed PITA.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            NormDroid
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            Nope, that for the advice. That would leave only a few Characters.

            ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
            ab defgh lmn qr t y

            Maybe include numbers.

            Two heads are better than one.

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            • M Mark_Wallace

              Have you excluded letters that look similar whether upper or lower case, and zeros, ones, i, l, o, etc? If you haven't, it's a guaranteed PITA.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              Rage
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              A true CLITA. Captcha Letters ITA.

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              • I Indivara

                Your captcha looks OK. Now c(r)aptchas like this I loath http://www.narnio.com/2010/08/20/leaving-linkedin/[^] X|

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                NormDroid
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                Yes these style captchas are rather on the excessive side.

                Two heads are better than one.

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                • N NormDroid

                  Here ya go. Captcha[^]

                  Two heads are better than one.

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                  Luc Pattyn
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                  Thanks. I suggest you limit rotation to [-30,+30]. is the first letter a Z, a z, or an N? is it case-sensitive? I'd like captchas to be somewhat tolerant, say accepting one wrong or missing character. All to often it is impossible to get them right. :)

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                  • L Luc Pattyn

                    Thanks. I suggest you limit rotation to [-30,+30]. is the first letter a Z, a z, or an N? is it case-sensitive? I'd like captchas to be somewhat tolerant, say accepting one wrong or missing character. All to often it is impossible to get them right. :)

                    Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

                    Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, and improve readability.

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                    NormDroid
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                    Good point. :)

                    Two heads are better than one.

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                    • N NormDroid

                      Just finished implementing a Captcha Control in SilverLight... Do you love or loath Captchas?

                      Two heads are better than one.

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                      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                      They are a fun aside to the day to day grind of business programming. Unfortunately, modern character recognition is very good, slave labor is very cheap, and the baby boom generation has degenerating eye-sight and computer literacy issues.

                      Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost

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                      • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                        They are a fun aside to the day to day grind of business programming. Unfortunately, modern character recognition is very good, slave labor is very cheap, and the baby boom generation has degenerating eye-sight and computer literacy issues.

                        Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost

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                        NormDroid
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                        Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

                        and the baby boom generation has degenerating eye-sight and computer literacy issues.

                        So very true.

                        Two heads are better than one.

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                        • N NormDroid

                          Nope, that for the advice. That would leave only a few Characters.

                          ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
                          ab defgh lmn qr t y

                          Maybe include numbers.

                          Two heads are better than one.

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          Norm .net wrote:

                          That would leave only a few Characters.

                          But no-one would know. ;)

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                            Just finished implementing a Captcha Control in SilverLight... Do you love or loath Captchas?

                            Two heads are better than one.

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                            yoni at jefco
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                            Speaking personally as a spambot, I have to say i do not approve of them.

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                              Just finished implementing a Captcha Control in SilverLight... Do you love or loath Captchas?

                              Two heads are better than one.

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                              yoni at jefco
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                              Speaking personally as a spambot, I have to say I do not approve of them.

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                                Just finished implementing a Captcha Control in SilverLight... Do you love or loath Captchas?

                                Two heads are better than one.

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                                yoni at jefco
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                                Speaking personally as a spambot, I have to say i do not approve of them. {OK, Im tired of this...}

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