reCAPTCHA your CAPTCHA

Computer scientist Luis von Ahn is best known for inventing those twisted, blurry words that websites ask you to type to post a comment or send an email. reCAPTCHA is the process of utilizing CAPTCHA to improve the process of digitizing the text of books. It takes scanned words that optical character recognition software have been unable to read, and presents them for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words