Captcha::reCAPTCHA is pure Perl and wouldn't require root access to use a local copy. Just install it into a local user directory and use 'use lib' so that your CGI script will find it.

I haven't found Captcha:reCAPTCHA to be the world's easiest software to use, but it's OK.

This example is derived from one of the posted examples; you may find it useful. Note that I'm assuming that your Captcha::reCAPTCHA library is installed into a local directory, and that you've situated your public and private key files appropriately. Note that for security reasons these key files (especially the private one) shouldn't be located within web-browsable disk space.

HTH ... 

use lib '/home/myhomedir/myperllib';

use strict;
use warnings;
use Captcha::reCAPTCHA;
use CGI;

# Your reCAPTCHA keys from
#   https://admin.recaptcha.net/recaptcha/createsite/
my $pubpath = "/home/myhomedir/captcha/public.key";
my $privpath = "/home/myhomedir/captcha/private.key";

open INP,"<$pubpath" or die "Unable to open $pubpath";
my $pubkey = <INP>; chomp $pubkey;
close INP;
open INP,"<$privpath" or die "Unable to open $privpath";
my $privkey = <INP>; chomp $privkey;
close INP;

$| = 1;

my $q = CGI->new;
my $c = Captcha::reCAPTCHA->new;

my $error = undef;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<EOT;
<html>
  <body>
    <form action="" method="post">
EOT

# Check response
if ( $q->param( 'recaptcha_response_field' ) ) {
    my $result = $c->check_answer(
        $privkey, $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'},
        $q->param( 'recaptcha_challenge_field' ),
        $q->param( 'recaptcha_response_field' )
    );

    if ( $result->{is_valid} ) {
        print "Yes!";
    }
    else {
        $error = $result->{error};
    }
}

# Generate the form
print $c->get_html( $pubkey, $error );

print <<EOT;
    <br/>
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
    </form>
EOT

print "<p>The special stuff here</p>\n";

print <<EOT;
  </body>
</html>
EOT

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In reply to Re^2: Perl Captcha Solution by jae_63
in thread Perl Captcha Solution by Anonymous Monk

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