A friend was telling me that one site is now giving two verification words. Turns out the second one is actually some part of a document that failed to OCR, so it was put out to vote, by us mugginses out here.
If it's true, it's an interesting concept. The sort of documents are those which only exist in print, and are being automatically converted to digital.
Urban legend or not, I just felt compelled to propagate it.
"A friend was telling me that one site is now giving two verification words. Turns out the second one is actually some part of a document that failed to OCR, so it was put out to vote, by us mugginses out here."
This is one of the cleverest ideas I've heard in a long time.
Sorry, not only do I sometimes use Americanisms, Californiaisms, Scouse, Manc and English, I also use industry acronyms, forgetting where I am.
Can you imagine my surprise when I thought a photographer friend wanted a self loading rifle! Also talking to an industrial chemist, their idea of a PCB was neither a process control block nor a printed circuit board.
Will try to keep it full text in future. Remember KISS (keep it simple, stupid).
A friend was telling me that one site is now giving two verification words. Turns out the second one is actually some part of a document that failed to OCR, so it was put out to vote, by us mugginses out here.
ReplyDeleteIf it's true, it's an interesting concept. The sort of documents are those which only exist in print, and are being automatically converted to digital.
Urban legend or not, I just felt compelled to propagate it.
ROTFL.
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Sometimes those Kaptcha... cha... chrrr... cough... are very hard to read. I wonder if that's really necessary. Overkill, as it were.
That means we only have 7 more Xmases before world war Z breaks out. Yay!
ReplyDelete"A friend was telling me that one site is now giving two verification words. Turns out the second one is actually some part of a document that failed to OCR, so it was put out to vote, by us mugginses out here."
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the cleverest ideas I've heard in a long time.
OCR?
ReplyDelete(sorry, but acronyms are rapidly becoming one of my major irritants.)
I hear ya.
ReplyDeleteOptical Character Recognition. When the computer translates a scan of a text page into text.
Sorry, not only do I sometimes use Americanisms, Californiaisms, Scouse, Manc and English, I also use industry acronyms, forgetting where I am.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine my surprise when I thought a photographer friend wanted a self loading rifle! Also talking to an industrial chemist, their idea of a PCB was neither a process control block nor a printed circuit board.
Will try to keep it full text in future. Remember KISS (keep it simple, stupid).