[Gllug] Receiving Faxs

[David Abbishaw]

>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:09:21 +0100
>From: andrew Black <andrew-li at black1.org.uk>
>Subject: [Gllug] Receiving Faxs
>To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
>Message-ID: <447EBCD1.2070304 at black1.org.uk>
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>Hi
>It is a long time since I have looked at this - do anyone have any 
>solutions they would recommend.
>
>I want to be able to receive the odd fax (1 or 2 a month) in a PDF or 
>bitmap format.  I would prefer to receive them in email, or get an email 
>to say there is something waiting on a server.
>
>Why? I have a friend who needs to send me graphic data + text.  He has 
>trouble sending attachments and uploading to websites - mutterings about 
>old PC virus checkers and old version of AOL software.  I am not getting 
>involved. He does have a fax machine.
>
>So if I receive faxes on an occasional basis that would be great.
>Any other solutions to the underlying problem would be great.
>
>Andrew



Andrew,

I had the same requirement and although I use asterisk and could have bolted fax into it, it seemed much easier to use the free fax service I found online,  you get your own phone number to receive faxes on which are recorded as tiff and emailed, you can have PDF at a cost but tiff is fine and unless your receiving huge multi page documents by fax tiff seems small enough.

http://www.pumaone.co.uk/fax/fax_to_email.asp

Only downside is that you have to receive one fax every 90 days I think to keep the service running,  see the website for more details.



David



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