Unexpected benefit?

Unexpected benefit?

Posted Aug 24, 2006 7:17 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Unexpected benefit? by eru
Parent article: Fighting image spam

Hell ya.

High quality OCR software for open source software would rock. It would be usefull for a whole bunch of different things.

For example.. improved handwriting recognition, maybe? Increase accessability for disabled people would be another purpose. Make it easy and cheaper for people to scan in massive amounts of written and printed documents for archival purposes.

If they can get that improved then it would make the fight against spam much more worthwhile then just fighting spam. :)

Plus it would be great if SA is able to outwit the spammers with the aid super cow powers of open source. Because this would be simply something that is not possible with closed source software. The anti-virus vs the pro-virus people have proven time and time again that crafty folks on irc channels can defeat big corprate money.

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