Digitizing Old Text and Fighting Spam, Too

1points Posted 330 days, 17 hours ago by Devar

The next time a Web site asks you to read a string of crooked letters as a security precaution, don't grimace. You could be helping to digitize a deteriorating historical document.

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Source: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/814/1

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