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

[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
> Voice Telecommunications Services Department.
> Good Samaritan National Campus
> 605-362-3331
>
>   
>>>> oza-4h07 at myamail.com 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 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
>
> I do not believe this is possible.  Email spam filters use rules to filter on the text of the email message, while a fax is scanned, transmitted and received as a graphic image.
>
>
>
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