Comment Re:The hard work is just around the corner... (Score 0, Offtopic) 453
Erm...
The ability to extract a certain set of characters from mangled patterns included in an image is not necessarily a task that humans should have an advantage in. I am pretty sure that it would take a human significantly more time to deny/allow a user access, based on biometric data such as fingerprints or a voice pattern.
A computer has to extract the data from a very limited (a small image) sample, and is 100% "sure" that all extracted data falls within a very limited predefined set of results - the alphabet.
A (very) well written algorithm can easily have an edge on most humans.
The ability to extract a certain set of characters from mangled patterns included in an image is not necessarily a task that humans should have an advantage in. I am pretty sure that it would take a human significantly more time to deny/allow a user access, based on biometric data such as fingerprints or a voice pattern.
A computer has to extract the data from a very limited (a small image) sample, and is 100% "sure" that all extracted data falls within a very limited predefined set of results - the alphabet.
A (very) well written algorithm can easily have an edge on most humans.