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Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian/UbuntuThis tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails. FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding unnecessary work.

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Thanks for this nice tutorial,

I am looking for additionnal informations about fuzzyOCR efficency. Spam image is changing a lot, spammers are regulary adding noise to pictures in order to bypass OCR . Good news is ressources needs which seems to be correct.

Questions:

-Is fuzzyOCR updated regulary.

-What are your spam statistics with fuzzyOCR install on your mail gateway ?. Is it a real added value on your mail gateway ?.

Regards.

gmiga76.

By: emmanuel

has encontrado mas informacion de fuzzyocr que me puedas apoyar

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I have had great luck with Fuzzy OCR. With Debian the set up is trivial and it works just as advertised.

By: Sisko214

FuzzyOcr it is a really good tools to block new spam email where its contents is embedded into an image.

Thanks !