"Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi Loren, >> >> I did the test and unfortunately my FuzzyOcr (3.5.1) was bitten >> by that spam image. > > The normal scan setups for FuzzyOCR don't rotate the images, so will > in all probability miss a rotated image like this. These were quite > popular for a while and a couple of people developed scansets that > contained rotation as one of the preprocessing steps. I don't seem to > have saved any of the messages relating to that thread. As best I > recall they found that rotating 8 degrees or so worked well. Or maybe > it was 18. > > You can probably find info on the FuzzyOcr mailing list:
Hi Loren, I was quite sure that FuzzyOcr project is dead, because a few months ago I was trying to contact his author, Decoder, but no success. Probably he was very busy :) Fortunately, it seems that FuzzyOcr project still is alive. It's a very good message for me, because it's really a very useful utility :) I've found a threat about rotated spam images at FuzzyOcr page [1]. Currently Decoder hasn't time to implement checking image rotation, but he will try to do it in the future. Now we can only work-around it, for example using the preprocessor/scanset settings. Who of you do rotate images in your FuzzyOcr? Do you use fixed degrees or detect the skew angle and rotate the image accordingly? Could you share this? Kind regards, Pawel [1] http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/ticket/408
