OT: ImageInfo or some other tool to detect Animated Gifs.

[Duncan, Brian M.]

FYI to answer my own IT post: (After monitoring the Spam Assassin
mailing list - Very valuable)

In my case if the SARE ruleset (when release) works on animated gifs, I
will get rid of OCR'ing.

> Hi,
>
> Has anyone come up with a SA method for identifying animated GIFs?
> Like some way of getting the properties of the file and checking if
> the frame count > 1?
> I've looked at mime signatures, but I'm not sure if that will work and

> I don't have enough samples to test.

Before anyone else slams you. YES. And a 60 second search of the
archives would have pulled it up.

You can use FuzzyOCR, or the SARE stock ruleset will be updated soon
with a less CPU intense solution.

--Chris

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