Anyone using FuzzyOCR?

[Rose, Bobby]

I've been using it for a while now and it hasn't been that bad.  Note
that it's configured to have a low SA priority so it's the last plugin
called and also to be skipped if the message already has a sufficient
spamscore.  The default is 10 but I changed it to 8 in the cf so that it
matched my MailScanner configs.  It has been good at catching those
animated spam gifs.

I also use imageinfo but has does lead to many false positives so I had
to lower the scores on it.  Imageinfo is good for the layered images
spams since you will hardly find regular email uses doing that.  

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I have spoken to other people who have tried FuzzyOCR and have found
Imageinfo much more useful. FuzzyOCR is reckoned to be very high on
resources and very slow, of the order of several seconds per message. 
The opinion from other people I have spoken to seems to be that it is
not worth it.

But that's my opinion, Gary.... (along with Steve Freegard of MailWatch
fame and Anthony of milter.org fame).

Pentland G. wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trialling FuzzyOCR and having mixed results.
>
> Are any of you using this and what have you found?  Good and bad, I'm 
> interested.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
>
>   

Jules

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