Why

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The consulting company i work for OCTO Technology was answering a RFP for the public administration in which a anti-bot submission protection was requiered. Nothing was available in java at the time, so we decided to write an Open Source implementation.

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a framework for Captcha?

Yes, why use a framework with hundreds of classes when some implementations are so simple? To answer this question lets imagine what happens when a captcha is cracked ie this is no more a hard AI problem.

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