JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 12(12): 1783-1796, doi: 10.3217/jucs-012-12-1783
Persian/Arabic Baffletext CAPTCHA
expand article infoMohammad Hassan Shirali-Shahreza, Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza§
‡ Yazd University, Iran§ Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Open Access
Abstract
Nowadays, many daily human activities such as education, trade, talks, etc are done by using the Internet. In such things as registration on Internet web sites, hackers write programs to make automatic false registration that waste the resources of the web sites while it may also stop it from functioning. Therefore, human users should be distinguished from computer programs. To this end, this paper presents a method for distinction of Persian and Arabic-language users from computer programs based on Persian and Arabic texts. Our proposed algorithm is based on adding a background to the image of a meaningless Persian/Arabic randomly generated word. This method relies on the difficulty of automatic separation of background from Persian/Arabic writing, due to the presence of many diacritical dots and signs.
Keywords
completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and human apart (CAPTCHA), Persian and Arabic text, BaffleText, optical character recognition (OCR), internet security