Re: An OCR plug-in for Spamassassin

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

On 4/16/06, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> der Mouse wrote:
>
> > Just means you have to render the whole mail before OCRing, rather than
> > trying to OCR the individual images.
>
> Taking account of all the HTML markup, etc that would be involved, plus
> the number (and size) of legitimate messages that would also have to be
> (at least partially) rendered to rule out that they employ overlaid
> graphics, I suspect that solution goes (well) beyond the point most
> consider a "reasonable effort" for most spam-filtering mail servers.


If there was only a sensor to detect bad poetry, we could end the spam
problem right here and now.

-JP

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