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Published inOct 2015
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Richard Penman
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Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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This chapter showed how to solve CAPTCHAs, first by using OCR, and then with an external API. For simple CAPTCHAs, or for when you need to solve a large amount of CAPTCHAs, investing time in an OCR solution can be worthwhile. Otherwise, using a CAPTCHA solving API can prove to be a cost effective alternative.

In the next chapter, we will introduce Scrapy, which is a popular high-level framework used to build scraping applications.

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Richard Penman

Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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