decoding captchas

Friday, 17th July, 2009, 6:20 p.m.
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captcha , crack , decode , image , pil and python

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Decoding CAPTCHA's using the mighty python language. Simple & clever use of PIL can crack the captcha's. Freaking awesome isn;t it. Hats off to one brain behind it..

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  1. 001// Ben Boyter// Sunday, 9th August, 2009, 11:25 p.m.

    Thank you for the kind words! I hope you found the article useful and failing that at least interesting.

  2. 002// Chalapathy// Wednesday, 30th December, 2009, 9:32 p.m.

    iam getting a error msg stating like this "Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:ChalaPythonCaptchacaptcha.py", line 6, in [HTML_REMOVED] im2 = Image.new("P",im.size,255) File "C:Python26libsite-packagesPILImage.py", line 1710, in new return Image()._new(core.fill(mode, size, color)) File "C:Python26libsite-packagesPILImage.py", line 36, in getattr raise ImportError("The imaging C module is not installed") ImportError: The imaging C module is not installed"...... could you please guide me on this..

  3. 003// Ben Boyter// Monday, 5th April, 2010, 6:05 p.m.

    Looks like you need to install the Python Image Library. You can get it from here http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

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