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

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Wed Dec 12 05:55:28 CST 2007


On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:37:45AM +0000, 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 work with non-spam faxes?

I figure that spammers may take extra steps to make OCR difficult (see
e.g. the wikipedia article or your spam folder). But providing the
content as text can probably be a useful addition for fax2mail.

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