>>>Anyone ever used any programs that can defeat captcha?
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>>Haven't used any myself, but there's lots of research going on:
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>>http://www.google.ca/search?q=captcha+crack
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>>Not to mention captcha cracking farming - one interesting variation:
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>>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/captcha_striptease.php
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>Thanks Al, I need to defeat the captcha that the sheriff's office put on their jail website. They did this to keep me from pulling the images and giving them to the public, after a person is released from jail.

Did they put up a captcha just to defeat you?? Or was it already in place, for the general public? Sounds like you need to use some soft human skills rather than hard tech skills < g >

This is a link I found a couple of years ago: http://libcaca.zoy.org/wiki/PWNtcha

It claims it's old, not being updated, not sure how useful it would be for you. But, there are links on that page to other projects.

Captcha breaking is actively pursued and financed by spammers and other dubious types, so I suspect if you go much farther into this you'll end up looking at the seamy underbelly of the Internet...