Re: GIF Spam -- Setting up the 'OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin'

[Stephan Bosch]

Davin Flatten schreef:
Just thought this might help someone out.  Thanks to M. Blapp for an 
excellent SA Plugin.  Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be used to 
nab those pesky spam messages that are hidden in gif,jpeg, or png images...

I ran a search on the patch and I didn't see any references to the bayes 
learner. Wouldn't it be a logical choice to feed (and test) the OCR text 
to the bayes learner just like any other plaintext mail content? The OCR 
results will of course contain some gibberish, but that shouldn't be 
very different from the usual bayes poison. I think this could further 
improve the OCR feature (haven't tested the patch yet btw).

Regards,

Stephan