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[Mitch Pirtle]

Wow if that was true then that is a total bummer! I don't think spam
bots convert and scan PDF documents, however with a little thought it
wouldn't be all that hard. I suppose the only thing keeping them from
doing it is a little effort - and if they think it is worth it, they
will do it.

-- Mitch

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Donna Marie Vincent
<donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.  Hope you're having a great summer.
>
> I'm wondering if spambots can/do harvest email addresses contained in pdf
> documents that are in Docman.
>
> I have PDF Indexer running on a site, and I modified it to change the format
> of email addresses in the pdf conversion to text for the index, but I don't
> know if the spambot can get it directly from the pdf.
>
> I've been doing some research but haven't found anything yet that indicates
> they do this.
>
> Donna
>
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