OT: need help installing FuzzyOCR

[Julian Field]

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Arthur Sherman wrote:
> Figured it out by myself...
>
> But anyway, thanks for this great howto!
> I will save it for further reference.
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> Best,
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> Arthur Sherman
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Dhawal Doshy
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:23 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: OT: need help installing FuzzyOCR
>>
>> Arthur Sherman wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install the FuzzyOCR plugin to work with 
>>>       
>> SpamAssassin on
>>     
>>> CentOS-4.4.
>>>
>>> It asks for ImageMagick installation, so I yummed for it 
>>>       
>> and found a great
>>     
>>> deal of packages. I hesitate between ImageMagick.i386 and
>>> ImageMagick-perl.i386, while latter seems to be more appropriate.
>>>
>>> Is it right?
>>> May someone share some other tips for 
>>>       
>> installing/configuring the plugin?
>>
>> I have it installed on 3 servers and do not remember the 
>> requirement for 
>> imagemagick!!
>>
>> Anyways, here is a snippet from my doc (for centos 4.x).
>>
>> yum install netpbm netpbm-devel netpbm-progs gtk+-devel libungif 
>> libungif-devel libungif-progs
>> perl -MCPAN -eshell
>> 	install String::Approx
>> mkdir /root/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>> cd /root/FuzzyOcrPlugin
>> wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jocr/gocr-0.41.tar.gz
>> wget http://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschulen/ocr/gocr-0.41-pgm.patch
>> tar xzf gocr-0.41.tar.gz
>> cd gocr-0.41
>> patch -p0 < ../gocr-0.41-pgm.patch
>> perl -e "s/^%configure --with-netpbm=no/%configure/g;" -pi gocr.spec
>> cd ..
>> tar czf gocr-0.41.custom.tar.gz gocr-0.41
>> rm -fr gocr-0.41
>> rpmbuild -ta gocr-0.41.custom.tar.gz
>> cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
>> rpm -ivh gocr-0.41-1.i386.rpm gocr-devel-0.41-1.i386.rpm
>> cd -
>> wget 
>> http://users.own-hero.net/~decoder/fuzzyocr/fuzzyocr-latest.tar.gz
>> tar xzf fuzzyocr-latest.tar.gz
>> cd Fuzzy*
>> mv FuzzyOcr.cf FuzzyOcr.pm /etc/mail/spamassassin
>> mv FuzzyOcr.words.sample /etc/mail/spamassassin/FuzzyOcr.words
>>
>> Change FuzzyOcr.cf as required.. and test using 'sa --lint'
>>
>> - dhawal
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