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Not surprised. Not to be cavalier or anything, but I mean, even I was about to start a side-project to solve those things.

Awesome! It would be amazing if you open sourced your own solutions for it so we could learn from you- I find the topic fascinating! :-)

Shameless plug http://www.boyter.org/decoding-captchas/ I wrote this a few years ago. Has full source code too.

checkout captchasniper, was the best one a while ago.