Spam Filtering - facileOCR
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.... <quote as posted> 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 ;-) </quote. 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:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
Thanks Wash, Just what I've been looking for. 2009/5/20 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
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....
<quote as posted>
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:-)
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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Thanks for sharing this! been using FuzzyOCR for sometime now , but of late the annoying VIAGRA adverts have been going through ;) -- Δαβίδ Fran Lebowitz<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/fran_lebowitz.html> - "If you're going to America, bring your own food."
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