How to handle captcha automation using LEAPWORK?

Captcha is a computer program or system intended to distinguish human from machine input, typically as a way of thwarting spam and automated extraction of data from websites.

Handling captcha with an automation tool is always a challenge as the purpose of Captcha is to avoid Bots, hence 100% automation is not possible if there is a captcha and human intervention is unavoidable.

With LEAPWORK, users can try automating captcha with the help of Image and Text Recognition blocks(i.e OCR - Optical Character Recognition) if the captcha to be read is a simple plain alphanumeric text in the plain English language along with the numbers. But to achieve this scenario, LEAPWORK users have to consider a few factors such as:

1. Image Background

2. Image Clarity

3. Font size

4. Font type

5. Resolution

Note: Please make sure that while trying to automate captcha with OCR blocks in LEAPWORK, the best practices for Image and Text Recognition building blocks should be followed.

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