OCR with Python

[Alan Kennedy]

A wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with Optical Character Recognition
> in Python? I would like to automatically register emails with a
> free emails provider e.g. Yahoo or Hotmail.

What's wrong with the manual registration process? You wouldn't be
thinking of automating abuse of the Yahoo or Hotmail free email
services, would you? e.g. SPAM transmission?

> The problem is that, for a successful registration, I must fill in 
> characters shown in a picture.

Precisely. That's the whole point. To stop people from automating
registration.

> So I need to recognize the characters in a picture.

I think you'll find that those characters have been rendered
specifically to prevent machine recognition. The only machine that can
read them is the human brain. If someone can come up with an computer
algorithm that can read them, then the pictures will have to be
changed.

And I'm glad it's that way. That prevents automated abuse of free
email services for sending SPAM, etc. So we all might get less SPAM.

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alan kennedy
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