Re: [Spambayes] Images of commercial text with decoy text are mushing my index
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Jamie> I am being assaulted by a new sort of spam where the commercial
Jamie> message is contained in an image, and the text of the message is
Jamie> just there as a decoy ...
The current alpha of SpamBayes has some OCR capability to deal with this.
We've yet to make an official release. Mark Hammond was working with it a
week or so ago and seemed to think it was working for him on Windows. I
developed the new code in a Unix (actually MacOSX) environment, so once Mark
is satisfied perhaps we can turn the knobs on an official release.
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