Bug#562200: ITP: fuzzyocr -- interface SpamAssassin to various OCR packages

[Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : fuzzyocr
  Version         : 3.6.0
  Upstream Author : Christian Holler and Jorge Valdes
* URL             : http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/
* License         : Apache 2.0
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Interface SpamAssassin to various OCR packages


Taken from their website:

FuzzyOcr is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk
mail (also known as "Spam") containing images as the main content
carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties
of images to distinguish between normal mails (Ham) and spam mails. The
methods mainly are:

    * Optical Character Recognition using different engines and settings
    * Fuzzy word matching algorithm applied to OCR results
    * Image hashing system to learn unique properties of known spam
    * images
    * Dimension, size and integrity checking of images
    * Content-Type verification for the containing email 

In short, it's imho an important add-on to SpamAssassin these days.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (450, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)