OT: pdf spam

Daniel Maher daniel.maher at ubisoft.com
Wed Jun 20 15:52:50 IST 2007


> I was just about to post about these myself. I have attached an example.
> 
> I have found if I use 'less' to view the document it renders it to plain
> text and is very readable. So would it be possible to convert a pdf to
> plain text and append it to the email message for the purposes of the
> spamassassin checks?
> 
> Alternativly perhaps this is a job for MCP?
> 
> Another possibility would be for the author of fuzzyocr to recognise
> .pdf files and render them so they can be scanned for keywords. I can
> think of a few keyword and load issues this could cause though.

I'm not sure that the example was attached - at the very least, I didn't get it over here. :)  Would you be so kind as to forward a sample?  Thanks!


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