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PHP Ajax Cookbook
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Preface
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Index

Decoding CAPTCHA through canvas


CAPTCHA (or Captcha) is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, based on the word 'capture'. It was originally coined by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford. CAPTCHA is meant to stop machines and robots from accessing webpage functionalities; it is usually placed in a web page's signup form to ensure only human beings are signing up with the site. Often, it is based on the fact that computers find it difficult to recognize text when presented in image form. More research and advanced techniques of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) are weakening the Captcha concept, which in turn forces further research on Captcha. HTML5's canvas element opens up the possibility of decoding it through JavaScript programming.

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The canvas element is part of the HTML5 specification. It was introduced by Apple in a WebKit component. After that, it was adopted by Gecko-based browsers, such as Mozilla...

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