Crowdsourcing
00:11 - 04:49
4m 38s
ReCAPTCHA uses crowdsourcing to transcribe words from books that a computer can't distinguish between. The reCAPTCHA makes sure the user is actually a human entering a webpage and also uses the person to help determine words from texts that can't be transcribed by computers.

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