Captcha Me: If You Can Root Me

The image showed not pixels, but code. A moving, breathing CAPTCHA that changed every time a bot tried to parse it. Humans could read it easily: “Type the letters: R00T M3” — but any automated solver crashed into an infinite loop.

Because of the distortion, Tesseract may fail on some attempts. captcha me if you can root me

Solving this challenge generally involves a four-step automated pipeline: The image showed not pixels, but code