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captcha2 — text captcha dataset with full label provenance
1999 grayscale-ish JPEG captchas (≈300×50 px) of 6 lowercase alphanumeric symbols from a
~20-symbol alphabet (2345678abcdefgmnpwxy; visually ambiguous symbols such as 0/o, 1/l/i
are not used), collected from a public web page in October 2026. The source is intentionally not
disclosed.
The interesting part is not the images but how the labels were made and fixed — every label carries its history.
| split | images | label |
|---|---|---|
train |
904 | verified |
validation |
100 | verified (frozen; all reported metrics use it) |
unlabeled |
995 | none verified; llm_label (Claude) only, so expect ~1 in 5 to be wrong |
Columns
| column | meaning |
|---|---|
image |
the captcha (original JPEG bytes) |
filename |
YYYYmmdd_HHMMSS.jpg, collection time |
label |
final, verified label (empty for unlabeled) |
rucaptcha_raw |
answer returned by a paid human solver (RuCaptcha ImageToTextTask) |
rucaptcha_label |
normalized: Latin lowercased; empty if the answer was Cyrillic |
llm_label, llm_confidence |
label annotated by Claude, used as a second opinion (high/low); weak: 78.3% exact |
corrected |
true if label differs from rucaptcha_label |
correction_stage |
length_fix / llm_review / alphabet_fix — see provenance/corrections.csv |
How labels were produced
- Paid human labels. Images were sent to RuCaptcha with
minLength=maxLength=6. ~7% of the returned answers were typed in Cyrillic look-alikes and were discarded; the remaining answers are the starting labels. - Second opinion. Every image was also labeled by Claude (an LLM reading the image), with a
self-reported
high/lowconfidence. These labels are not reliable on their own: only 78.3% of them exactly match the verified labels (95.8% per symbol), versus 88.4% for the paid human labels. They were used only to find disagreements worth a second look. - Corrections: 116 of 1004 human labels changed (11.6%), via 118 logged correction rows (before/after + reason):
length_fix— human answer had 5 or 7 symbols;llm_review— human and LLM labels disagreed; resolved by looking at the image;alphabet_fix— symbol outside the alphabet (z→2,v→y, …).
- Sanity checks: exact length 6, no duplicates, image exists, flags for runs of 3+ identical symbols (kept — they are legitimate).
Known residual noise: 3 labels still contain q or s, which are outside the core alphabet and
are probably errors. They were kept to match the trained model exactly.
Intended use
OCR fine-tuning on small data, label-noise / annotation-quality research, teaching material. Not for circumventing captchas on live systems.
Pipeline code (collection logic, labeling, training, ONNX export): see the GitHub repository
captcha2-resolver.
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