Re: An OCR plug-in for Spamassassin

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 4/16/06, der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca> wrote:
> > At the risk of helping the scumbag spammers, imagine what you could
> > easily achieve with overlaid images each with a large-ish area of
> > transparency and partial representation of each letter.
>
> Just means you have to render the whole mail before OCRing, rather than
> trying to OCR the individual images.


Does anyone know how CPU intensive would it be to OCR the amount of
messages a large corporation receives in one day? I seem to remember
omnipage taking a bit of the cycles when it was running and even
though the OCR systems in development will be a sight better, I am
still curious if this technology will at first end up being a possible
DoS before it matures.

-JP

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