Hi everyone,
For those of you who implement messaging solutions using FOSS, here is a new one I've just learned (why does gmail editor underline when I write "learnt"?) about....
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just want to share this with you:
facileOCR is a new spamassassin plugin to analyze the text of images (using OCR).
(It's meant to fight the current wave of all-so-colerful pills advertisment)
It works great with spamd -- and does it's job for me.
As always -- your mileage may vary.
( The spammers seem to change the images very frequent - changing text, font, ... )
Keep in mind, that the OCR will for sure need some resources; it's more meant to try catch the rest of image-spam which made it thru all your other barriers.
For more information & download:
http://spielwiese.la-evento.com/facileOCR/
(Im not the author, just promoting it a bit ;-)
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This is so good to hear. Lately, even gmail filters don't catch the image-spam. For me, this is a good addition to FuzzyOCR which I have been using quite successfully with SpamAssassin on several servers that I manage. It is a simple drop in, just like FyzzyOCR,
And talking of spam, the upsurge seems to be inversely proportional to
the world economic recession - as we sink deeper into the recession,
the more the spam that we get. Makes me think that spammers are also
hard hit and so looking for more money:-)
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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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