Origin
Distributed Proofreaders was the first project to volunteer its time to decipher scanned text that could not be read by OCR. It worked with Project Gutenberg to digitize the public domain works.
The reCAPTCHA program originated with Guatemalan computer scientist Luis von Ahn, and was aided by a MacArthur Fellowship. An early CAPTCHA developer, he realized "he had unwittingly created a system that was frittering away, in ten-second increments, millions of hours of a most precious resource: human brain cycles".
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