Re: flexfax: getting sender name foe rec faxes?

["Joel B. Stalder" <joel@uptimecomputers.com>]

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Darrell Berry wrote:

> is tehre any place that hylafax records the sender name string (if any)
> on received faxes?
> 
> i want to write a little script that picks up each incoming fax,
> converts it to PDf format, and emails it to someone responsible for
> checking the intended recipient and forwarding i on to them...it would
> be a nice touch if the Subject of the email could be whatever sender ID
> string was printed at the top of the fax (you know what i mean...not
> attempting to OCR the fax, but just ripping out the 'header' at the top
> which contains the sender's name or phone number...)
> 

Have a look at faxinfo, included with the hylafax distribution. It does
what you want, and the output is easily parsed.

And ImageMagick/PerlMagick also notices the extra info fields stuffed 
into the tiff by hylafax. This can be handy if you're already using
ImageMagick for other conversions, CGIs, or whatever.

Hope you find this useful,

-Joel


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