OT: pdf spam

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Wed Jun 20 16:08:59 IST 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:52, Daniel Maher wrote:
> > 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!
> 
It was too big to send so I have uploaded it :-
http://www.gbnetwork.co.uk/temp/ee_report.pdf



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