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reviewed by: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

amazoncaptcha is a pure Python library for solving Amazon's image-based text captchas. It does not rely on external OCR or machine learning models; instead, it uses a custom algorithm that converts the captcha image to monochrome, segments individual letters, and matches each extracted letter against a precomputed library of compressed patterns (stored as zlib-compressed byte strings in JSON files). The library provides a simple API: the `AmazonCaptcha` class can be instantiated with an image file path, URL, or a Selenium WebDriver screenshot, and its `solve()` method returns the predicted captcha text. The architecture is monolithic: a single package with image processing utilities (utils.py), the solving logic (solver.py), optional data collection tools (devtools.py), and embedded training data for letters A–Z. Externally, it depends on Pillow for image manipulation and requests for downloading captchas from URLs. The solver is designed for high accuracy (claimed 99.9% on various tests) and lightness, making it suitable for web automation and scraping tasks that encounter Amazon captchas. While the core algorithm is elegant and self-contained, its effectiveness is tightly coupled to the specific font, distortion, and noise patterns used by Amazon in its captchas. Any change to Amazon's captcha design would likely require retraining or updating the embedded pattern database. The repository also includes a test suite, CI configuration, and documentation for integration with Selenium.

RATING7.4/10
QUALITY7.0/10
MAINTENANCEactive
DRIFTlow
CONTRIBUTORS7
VELOCITY0.52
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The LLM identified 1 files worth highlighting for reuse:

Provides three highly reusable image processing functions: cut_the_white (trims white borders from PIL images), merge_horizontally (merges images side by side), and find_letter_boxes (finds bounding boxes of non-white regions in a binary image). These functions are minimal, have no internal dependencies (only PIL), and can be extracted into any project that needs to preprocess scanned text or captcha images. They demonstrate clean, functional image processing without framework boilerplate.

file: amazoncaptcha/utils.py ↗ | tags: #image-processing #letter-segmentation #white-trimming
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