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Playing around with local VLMs for doing text CAPTCHAs

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I found a massive dataset of dummy hard CAPTCHAs on Kaggle and ran them through Qwen 3.6 and other models. Results are not too shabby, it was damn near on the money for a lot of the images. I'm confident Qwen 3.8 would pass a lot of these.

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  1. 2026-09-06 22:10 · r/LocalLLM
    Playing around with Qwen 3.6 27B for doing text CAPTCHAs
  2. 2026-09-06 22:09 · r/computervision
    Playing around with local VLMs for doing text CAPTCHAs

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