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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Mar 9, 2011 4:45AM

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Is anyone familiar with Solona (http://www.solona.net/about), which
provides a service for solving CAPTCHAs? If so, I would appreciate
comments on this and how it compares to other solutions, such as Webvisum
(http://www.webvisum.com/).

PP: Both Solona and Webvisum are excellent solutions. When Solona has
worked, it has done a fantastic job, relying on a human volunteer to provide
solutions to CAPTCHA. Its greatest advantage is that it could work
system-wide without relying on a particular browser and for both Windows and
OS X. Its greatest disadvantage is that it relies on a single human
volunteer to operate it. Despite efforts, it never attracted many
volunteers. For the past six months, the administrator and chief volunteer
has been ill. Because of it, Solona has been off line. Wevvisum works quite
well in firefox. I have always been able to solve CAPTCHAS when using the
extension. It relies on the terk model. Its down side is obvious. Firefox is
only accessible under Windows and Linux. For those users who rely on JAWS,
Firefox is not as well supported as IE under Windows.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Pratik