CAPTCHA: Attacks and Weaknesses against OCR technology

Authors

  • Silky Azad

Keywords:

CAPCHA, human interactive proofs, recaptcha, optical character recog-nition, tessaract, security

Abstract

The basic challenge in designing these obfuscating CAPTCHAs is to make them easy enough that users are not dissuaded from attempting a solution, yet still too difficult to solve using available computer vision algorithms. As Modern technology grows this gap however becomes thinner and thinner. It is possible to enhance the security of an existing text CAPTCHA by system-apically adding noise and distortion, and arranging characters more tightly. These measures, however, would also make the characters harder for humans to recognize, resulting in a higher error rates and higher Network load .This paper presents few of most active attacks on text CAPTCHAs existing today.

How to Cite

Silky Azad. (2013). CAPTCHA: Attacks and Weaknesses against OCR technology. Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 13(D3), 15–17. Retrieved from https://computerresearch.org/index.php/computer/article/view/368

CAPTCHA: Attacks and Weaknesses against OCR technology

Published

2013-10-15