Creating the dataset
In this chapter, we will take on the role of the bad guy. We want to create a program that can beat CAPTCHAs, allowing our comment spam program to advertise on someone's website. It should be noted that our CAPTCHAs will be a little easier that those used on the web today and that spamming isn't a very nice thing to do.
Our CAPTCHAs will be individual English words of four letters only, as shown in the following image:
Our goal will be to create a program that can recover the word from images like this. To do this, we will use four steps:
- Break the image into individual letters.
- Classify each individual letter.
- Recombine the letters ...
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