Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Spam increase?
On 25/04/07, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:25:16 +0100
> "James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@???> wrote:
>
> > All my current junk email is those ones with a graphics advert for
> > something, surrounded by lots of semi understandable text. All other
> > types of junk are completely filtered now.
> > I suppose we will need OCR filters soon. Do any exist for Linux?
>
> I use the spamasssin plugin with sylphhed-claws-gtk2.
>
> Just 5 minutes ago came across a reference to fuzzyocr which install
> as a plugin for spamasssin and now available as deb package in sid.
>
> I decided to give it a tryout and after the usual messages got the
> following
>
> > Unpacking fuzzyocr (from .../fuzzyocr_2.3b-2_all.deb) ...
> > Setting up libstring-approx-perl (3.25-1) ...
> > Setting up libungif-bin (4.1.4-4) ...
> > Setting up fuzzyocr (2.3b-2) ...
> > Restarting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd.
>
> so with luck that will get rid of a few more spam emails.
>
when installing fuzzyocr, my package manager asks for one of the following:
The 3 OCR engines are: gocr ocrad tesseract
