[linux-audio-user] The Open Loop Library, a few questions

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Dec 23 09:07:00 EST 2002


On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:09:08 -0800, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:00:04AM -0700, Darren Landrum wrote:
> > Generating an image on the fly and having them write the contents of 
> > the image into a form field? While it would still be possible to 
> > automate that, it would be much more difficult. Does anyone object or 
> > have any other ideas?
> 
> That's not too hard to implement, and it seems to help. Paypal uses this
> to help reduce fraud, and they saw something like a 90% decrease
> after instituting this system. The tricky thing about what paypal
> does is that they make their images rather nasty looking on purpose, 
> to make it harder to use OCR on them, but they are
> still human-readable. I don't know what the algorithm for
> making them look gunky is.

2 questions, what do blind users do, and what if you /want/ to bulk upload
samples?

- Steve



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