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fiddlerwoaroof on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA

Wasn't recaptcha originally associated with Project Gutenberg's digitization efforts?

fiddlerwoaroof on March 9, 2017 [–]

I guess not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Origin

greenhouse_gas on March 9, 2017 | [–]

It says there that it was.

Seems like a bait-and-switch. Do free labor for a good cause (PD books), turns out you're just growing Goolge's library which can be taken down at a whim.

icebraining on March 9, 2017 | | [–]

It says there that it was.

No, that was the Distributed Proofreaders project, which is unrelated (just used as an early example of crowdsourced OCR).

reCaptcha originally helped digitized the archive of the New York Times, but that was finished years ago.

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