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Hello,
I need to develop a form for a customer that has an image identifier to type in. He says he gets too much spam on his current form. How do you do this?

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A reliable approach for combines a maintained challenge service with lightweight, server-side checks. As noted, pick the solution based on expected traffic, privacy needs, and acceptable user friction. For low development overhead use a well-supported provider such as Google reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha (they handle updates and audio alternatives). If full control is required, a self-hosted image challenge is possible but needs ongoing tuning and an accessible fallback to meet WCAG guidelines.

Practical checklist to implement and tune the form: integrate the chosen widget and perform backend verification; make challenge tokens short-lived and single-use; add unobtrusive layers (hidden honeypot field, minimum-completion-time check, and rate limits); log and monitor failed attempts to adjust thresholds; provide an audio/alternative path for accessibility and a clear recovery for legitimate users. This expands on ’s and ’s pointers while avoiding brittle, one-off solutions: start with a hosted provider for immediate protection, then add honeypot and rate-limiting to reduce user friction and false positives.

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You need to provide better description than the general reguest you submited in first place. Elaborate on requirements...

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He means those things where you have to type in the letters visible in an image to validate the submission.

This requires a server-side script.

commented: You correct, somehow I overlooked the problem :) +8
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