How to read Captcha image using webdriver with Java

[Shashank Shekhar Tiwari]

Hi 

Here i want to know that how to do read Captcha using either Selenium with Java.

For reference i attached the Captcha image.

Thanks.

[Aniket Gadre]

If you are able to read Captcha it will defeat the purpose of having Captcha.. You cannot automate Captcha from UI atleast. 

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[Shashank Shekhar Tiwari]

But 

How developers read this thing.????

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[Chris Merrill]

On 11/8/2013 7:31 AM, Shashank Shekhar Tiwari wrote:
> But
> How developers read this thing.????

They don't....they already know what it says. The purpose of a CAPTCHA is to prevent
automation. You need to find a way to turn it off during testing...or you need to
know the answers ahead of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Aniket Gadre <anike...@gmail.com <mailto:anike...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> If you are able to read Captcha it will defeat the purpose of having Captcha.. You cannot
> automate Captcha from UI atleast.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Shashank Shekhar Tiwari <techsha...@gmail.com
> <mailto:techsha...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Here i want to know that how to do read Captcha using either Selenium with Java.
>
> For reference i attached the Captcha image.
>
>
> Thanks.
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[Aniket Gadre]

For testing purpose u can ask developers to name the image file with the text of captcha...you can fetch file name attribute at runtime and use the same value. This is one of the options, there can be many more.

[darrell]

Search this group for 'captcha'. This topic comes up again and again. You would typically put a backdoor in. I would have a config setting. If the setting is blank only the captcha image would work. If the config setting is "bypass" then you can answer the captcha using the image *OR* "bypass". This way during testing you set the config and use the bypass. When it goes to production you leave the config blank.

[darrell]

If you successfully convince the developers to do this, fail the captcha. This might fool some people but hundreds of people would figure this out and bypass the captcha.