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25th January 2009 - Link Blog

OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript. John dissects the brilliant Greasemonkey script that solves simple captchas using the canvas element and HTML5’s getImageData API.

Posted 25th January 2009 at 12 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th January 2009.

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