No worries back atcha' .
You're not stepping on any toes, but I figured I'd respond since we often hear people saying things like "I bet a good algorithm could do this automatically" and "why would you spend time writing a web thing?" We agree - a good algorithm should be able to do it, and we're going to be using the data gathered by humans to validate our tests at making the best algorithm possible.
If you wanna' be cutting edge in your noodling (and directly help us out with some of the things we haven't had time to do yet), checkout the machine learning library Keras:
https://keras.io/
And specifically, check out the OCR example here:
https://github.com/fchollet/keras/tree/master/examples
That's a convolutional neural network (and then some) that guesses the ASCII character from an image of a handwritten character. If you play with it enough, you can get the machine to do better than the average human. I'm hoping to get the same thing for images of bits...
/Andrew
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