ANN: Skimpy Gimpy ASCII Web Challenge CAPTCHA

[Olexandr Melnyk]

Looks interesting; have you considered making an audio alternative for
people with visual disabilities?

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Olexandr Melnyk,
http://omelynk.net/

18 Dec 2006 14:40:14 -0800, aaronwmail-usenet at yahoo.com <
aaronwmail-usenet at yahoo.com>:
>
> Please check it out and try it:
>
>    http://skimpygimpy.sourceforge.net/
>
> Find examples, documentation, links to demos
> and download links there.
>
> Skimpy Gimpy is a tool for generating HTML
> representations for strings which
> people can read but which web
> robots and other computer programs
> will have difficulty understanding.
> Skimpy is an example of a  Captcha:
> an acronym for "Completely Automated  Public
> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
>
> The Skimpy program and API
> (applications programmer interface)
> is implemented in a single
> self contained Python script (module).  The
> input for Skimpy are words or phrases.
> The output of the program and API are strings containing
> HTML preformatted text.  The preformatted
> text contains "ASCII art" representing the input
> phrase, which looks like somewhat sloppy handwriting
> on a speckled page, when viewed in an HTML browser.
>
> It is intended that it is easy for a human to
> read the word or phrase when rendered
> as HTML, but it is difficult for a program to
> extract the word or phrase automatically.
> The program uses a number of techniques
> to make the output difficult for a computer to
> interpret: curve interpolation, random rotation,
> random skew, random scale adjustment,
> "smearing", and addition of noise.
>
> The Skimpy tool is far easier to install, use,
> and embed than other similar technologies.
> All you need is python installed and the
> skimpyGimpy.py source file.
>
> Enjoy and happy holidays!  -- Aaron Watters
> ===
> there ain't no sanity clause!
>
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