Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Fax and anti-spam

2007-12-12 Thread dave cantera
I did some research on spam filter about a year ago. there are image analyzers that can detect human skin tones in images detecting porn. I have seen some examples of how the porn guys speckle the images to obscure, somewhat, the naked bodies. the OCR idea would be useful but the OCR engine w

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Fax and anti-spam

2007-12-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:37:45AM +, lotusscript wrote: > Never tried this but what about running the fax through an OCR ( gocr ) > then composing a mail with sendmail putting the text recovered from the > fax in the body and appending the original tiff image to the mail. How well does this

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Fax and anti-spam

2007-12-12 Thread lotusscript
Never tried this but what about running the fax through an OCR ( gocr ) then composing a mail with sendmail putting the text recovered from the fax in the body and appending the original tiff image to the mail. just a quick thought John Beaman wrote: > John Beaman > Telecom Specialist II > Voic

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Fax and anti-spam

2007-12-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Olivier wrote: > Hi, > > One of Asterisk features is fax2mail. > > As a good share of incoming faxes can be considered as advertising spam, > does it make sense to use email anti-spam features to filter them ? > I can't foresee any practical way to do so

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Fax and anti-spam

2007-12-11 Thread John Beaman
John Beaman Telecom Specialist II Voice Telecommunications Services Department. Good Samaritan National Campus 605-362-3331 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/2007 11:23:29 AM >>> Hi, One of Asterisk features is fax2mail. As a good share of incoming faxes can be considered as advertising spam, does i

[asterisk-users] OT - Fax and anti-spam

2007-12-11 Thread Olivier
Hi, One of Asterisk features is fax2mail. As a good share of incoming faxes can be considered as advertising spam, does it make sense to use email anti-spam features to filter them ? I can't foresee any practical way to do so but I would be very curious to discuss about it. Regards _