There is no need to actually OCR the image

There is no need to actually OCR the image

Posted Aug 28, 2006 17:43 UTC (Mon) by tack (subscriber, #12542)
In reply to: There is no need to actually OCR the image by spitzak
Parent article: Fighting image spam

I occasionally receive scanned newspaper articles that may be of interest to me.

I prefer the approach of OCRing the image and filtering that through a Bayesian classifier. One might be able to use some of the techniques described here to first optionally determine if the image likely contains a lot of text, and only then OCR it, which would help out with the CPU overhead.

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