Re: [Jocr-devels] Image Spam detection using gocr

[Todd L. <tl...@iv...>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:46:27PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:

>> > I'm working on some techniques to detect image spam by using gocr on
>> > images attached to emails. You may or may not be familiar with this
>> > style of spam, they often advertise stockscams or medications. 
>> Before you go any further and reinvent the wheel, did you look at 
>> FuzzyOCR ? http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/
>Yep, I used quite a few of the ideas in the FuzzyOCR spamassassin
>plugin, but because of constraints of the environment where my code must
>run, I cannot use FuzzyOCR directly.

What are those constraints?

>I read the code thoroughly, but I'm not a perl programmer, I don't
>believe it did any cleaning of the image.

What do you mean when you say "clean" the image?
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