Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
sjo...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Henry Segerman) wrote in <8clfuu$bpd$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>: >Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote: > >: No, but the point was that it wouldn't survive Henry Segerman's >: suggestion that one use a spell checker to identify what's _ascii >: art_. That *might* work, for *some* pictures, *if* everybody wrote in >: English (assuming that it would be an English spell checker). That >: method would not work for text in other languages, or for those visual >: poems somebody posted here a while ago... > >You could include very common but multiple letter words like 'the' in as >many languages as you want. I'm guessing that in the end the decision as >to wether something is ascii art or not is going to come down to adding >up a number of factors with weightings and comparing against a threshold >value. So anything we can say about what ascii art usually is is good. > Writ something that can recognize ascii-art from text and you'll be able to sell its engine. It would have to be pretty intelligent and with other input may well be able to be image-recognitionsoftware. 848888888P8 Ojosh!ro boP 4od 88 8o o8 88 88bo od88 8 odbodbo 8 88888888888 Ascii-art is usually ASCII
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c288d57efd7c580d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Jol...@roger.com (ojoshiro) Subject: Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails Date: 2000/04/10 Message-ID: <8F12B58B2ojoshirolunatechcom@195.66.14.174>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 609147943 References: <38E...@ukc.ac.uk> <8catkd$66v$1...@news.ox.ac.uk> <38E...@earthling.net> <il9...@4ax.com> <8F0DE4C0Eojoshirolunatechcom@195.66.14.174> <38E...@earthling.net> <8clfuu$bpd$1...@news.ox.ac.uk> X-Complaints-To: abu...@quicknet.nl X-Trace: amoeba1.soneraplaza.nl 955382628 212.127.162.250 (Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:03:48 MET DST) Organization: Sonera Quicknet User-Agent: Xnews/2.11.08 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:03:48 MET DST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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