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Which choice best states the main purpose of the text? In 2007, computer scientist Luis von Ahn was working on converting printed books into a digital format. He found that some words were distorted enough that digital scanners couldn't recognize them, but most humans could easily read them. Based on that finding, von Ahn invented a simple security test to keep automated 'bots' out of websites. The first version of the reCAPTCHA test asked users to type one known word and one of the many words scanners couldn't recognize. Correct answers proved the users were humans and added data to the book-digitizing project.
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- 1To indicate how popular reCAPTCHA is
- 2To call attention to von Ahn's book-digitizing project
- 3To explain how digital scanners work
- 4To discuss von Ahn's invention of reCAPTCHA✓
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To discuss von Ahn's invention of reCAPTCHA
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