CAPTCHA_break

A Python3 CAPTCHA solving bot based on Tesseract OCR

Install

You need :

• Python3 and pip
• Install the required pip modules as such :
  • pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

usage: captcha_break.py [-h] [-b] [-s SAVE] [-o]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b, --benchmark       make a benchmark on 100 recognitions
  -s SAVE, --save SAVE  save <SAVE> captchas to disk (for ML dataset, offline demo solving, etc)
  -o, --offline         solve offline CAPTCHAs located in offline_captchas folder

captcha_break relies on the site root-me.org in order to get the CAPTCHAs and automatically verify it's results so you will have to create an account/log in to the site in order to do online solving.

Online

When doing online solving (connected to root-me.org) you can use the following options :

• ./captcha_break.py : Send a single solve request to root-me.org and display the results
• ./captcha_break.py --benchmark : Send 100 solve requests to root-me.org and calculate a percentage of success based on the results
• ./captcha_break.py --save SAVE : Save <SAVE> number of CAPTCHAs to disk (for ML dataset, offline demo solving, etc)

Offline

captcha_break can also do offline solves of local CAPTCHAs by using the following option :

• ./captcha_break.py --offline : Will solve all CAPTCHA images located in offline_captchas folder and display the results

FAQ

I get an error when running ./captcha_break.py

If you get this error message when running the program :

Error when connecting to https://root-me.org website.
Are you logged into the site ?

You need to go on root-me.org and create an account/log in. Once you are logged-in, the bot is able to connect to the site and retrieve new CAPTCHAs.