tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post8800286497584084634..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: Every picture tells a story, don't it?Barry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-31791556903443921282006-11-21T06:46:00.000-05:002006-11-21T06:46:00.000-05:00I have personally experienced a dramatic uptick in...I have personally experienced a dramatic uptick in the image spam I get via email. But what gets through nowadays is down at the "annoyance" level which is better than the "disruptive" level that things were at back when I felt I needed to use POPfile.<br /><br />I read a story somewhere that spammers were using animated gifs in which only part of the text image is contained on each frame of the animation. If they're already attempting to circumvent OCR software, that would imply that OCR is already being used as a means to combat this spam (spammers, I think, are lazy).<br /><br />It seems to me that OCR has been around for quite a while.JP Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16796725364997136448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-62666661705620133372006-11-20T19:38:00.000-05:002006-11-20T19:38:00.000-05:00I can't believe anybody would call that "new"!I can't believe anybody would call that "new"!The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.com