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[joomla] Do spambots read pdfs?

Donna Marie Vincent donnamarievincent at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 7 10:40:00 EDT 2008


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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