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title: "Automated re-captcha decoding via API"
date: "2013-05-24"
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This is clever; you submit via an API the captcha image, a real user interprets the image and sends the “text” back: [www.deathbycaptcha.com](http://www.deathbycaptcha.com).

Specifically useful for mass submission or content extraction where the site uses a re-captcha form for data retrieval.

And I quote:

> “Starting from an incredible low price of $1.39 for 1000 solved CAPTCHAs.”