Lingvopoint - reduce profile info?

Triston Goodwin wrote:
They would have to come to each of these adapted profiles individually, take a screenshot, run it through a OCR and then upload the information to their site. And that's assuming that they are able to identify which profiles weren't scanned during the crawl.

Dan Lucas wrote:


It's probably easier than you think.

For example, the PyTesser Python module uses the Tesseract OCR engine, so you could scrape a profile using something like Beautiful Soup and check to see if the profile contains any large images. If it does, pass the image to the OCR engine and parse the (text) result. Not perfect, but likely good enough. Otherwise parse the profile text as usual.

In theory - I say that because it is ProZ, not ourselves, who controls the site - we have two obvious choices. First, try to close the site completely, which would, whatever some members may think, have a chilling effect on site use. Second, just accept that scammers are a fact of life in any profession that delivers intangible services over the internet, and work round them.

Dan

Maija Cirule wrote:

As a preventive action, I have included in my "About me" text the following sentence: For business correspondence, I use ONLY the EMAIL address WITH THE DOMAIN NAME specified in my profile, no gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc., therefore, any my business-related e-mails from free email addresses are INVALID. Besides, I have encrypted my CV (of course, it can be typed but cannot be copied or edited). And last but not the least: never ever include your e-mail address in your CV or elsewhere

Thayenga wrote:

Additionally I have password-protected my PDF business brochures so they cannot be copied or printed - only typed if someone has the time. They also have my name in text fields/watermarks across the pages so that screenshots cannot be "marketed".