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> From: John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> > Subject: Re: FUZZOCR > Date: September 14, 2013 1:46:21 PM EDT > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Jason Hirsh wrote: > >> My apologies as this is probably not the properly place for this but I can >> not find a functioning web page or list of FuzzOCR . Even the installation >> instructions I found were old in https://www.maiamailguard.comand had some >> issues in format. > > This is probably the closest you're going to get. > > FuzzyOCR has been inactive for a while since the initial wave of > text-in-image spams tapered off. I've been seeing text-in-image spams more > frequently lately so I think we should dust off FuzzyOCR. Yes I was seeing them too and thought this was an approach > > Search the mailing list archives for "fuzzyOCR" (not "FuzzOCR") and you > should probably be able to find contact information for the primary > developer, or clues for how to fix your jpegtopmn install. > >> Sep 14 13:27:19.948 [50639] dbg: FuzzyOcr: Using jpegtopnm => >> /usr/local/bin/jpegtopnm > > That may be logging what it's configured to do rather than what's been found > to work. > >> Can anyone give me an insight to the error ? It appears to be bombing out >> of test of jpegs ad stashing the image in a temp directory of /var/amavis >> which loads up the file system > > Does jpegtopnm actually exist at that location on your system? Yes it does > If you run it with a jpeg file (perhaps one of the lingering work files from > fuzzyocr) does it error out, and give an explanation why? from the command line it worked fine and converted… still trying some more searches to find a current POC I guess I could disable the jpeg portion in the thought that it would be a different graphic format Thanks for taking a look > > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org > key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Think Microsoft cares about your needs at all? > "A company wanted to hold off on upgrading Microsoft Office for a > year in order to do other projects. So Microsoft gave a 'free' copy > of the new Office to the CEO -- a copy that of course generated > errors for anyone else in the firm reading his documents. The CEO > got tired of getting the 'please re-send in XX format' so he > ordered other projects put on hold and the Office upgrade to be top > priority." -- Cringely, 4/8/2004 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 3 days until the 226th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution
