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color=#0000ff size=2>FuzzyOCR doesn't care about pictures, only text.
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size=2>It's scanning the image for text and then
fuzzyocr will then regex the text to see if any of the words
match those that you have fuzzyocr configured to look for. The more words
then the greater the score. So unless they are putting words in their
picures fuzzyocr won't care.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=898484219-15102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Imageinfo might cause you problems but it does consist of
various tests and you can always disable those that give you problems like the
single image of such and such size. The layering tests are still
good. That is where the spammer has multiple images and uses html
formatting to piece the individual images together to form a bigger
picture.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Chris
Sweeney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:00 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
MailScanner discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Anyone using
FuzzyOCR?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I want to use some sort of filtering for image spam as it keeps
getting worse and worse, but I host email for alot of realtor's and they do alot
of emailing of pictures for BPO's clients, etc. I am concerned that these
will get scored too high and get blocked. What is your take on
that?<BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR>Rose, Bobby wrote:<BR><SPAN
style="WHITE-SPACE: pre">> I've been using it for a while now and it hasn't
been that bad. Note<BR>> that it's configured to have a low SA priority
so it's the last plugin<BR>> called and also to be skipped if the message
already has a sufficient<BR>> spamscore. The default is 10 but I
changed it to 8 in the cf so that it<BR>> matched my MailScanner
configs. It has been good at catching those<BR>> animated spam
gifs.<BR>><BR>> I also use imageinfo but has does lead to many false
positives so I had<BR>> to lower the scores on it. Imageinfo is good
for the layered images<BR>> spams since you will hardly find regular email
uses doing that. <BR>><BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From:
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On Behalf Of Julian<BR>> Field<BR>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:38
PM<BR>> To: MailScanner discussion<BR>> Subject: Re: Anyone using
FuzzyOCR?<BR>></SPAN><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I have spoken to other people who have tried FuzzyOCR
and have found<BR>Imageinfo much more useful. FuzzyOCR is reckoned to be very
high on<BR>resources and very slow, of the order of several seconds per
message. <BR>The opinion from other people I have spoken to seems to be that
it is<BR>not worth it.<BR><BR>But that's my opinion, Gary.... (along with
Steve Freegard of MailWatch<BR>fame and Anthony of milter.org
fame).<BR><BR>Pentland G. wrote:<BR>>> All,<BR>>><BR>>> I'm
trialling FuzzyOCR and having mixed results.<BR>>><BR>>> Are any
of you using this and what have you found? Good and bad, I'm
<BR>>> interested.<BR>>><BR>>>
Thanks,<BR>>><BR>>> Gary<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>
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