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Re: questions on HylaFax
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peer support mailing list!
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> I am interested in your HylaFax software, but just a couple questions:
>
> What I want to do is just this:
> (1) Receive incoming faxes on a Sun/Unix workstation; I note your site
> says these will be stored as TIFF/F.
That should be easy.
> (2) Convert FAX to text (via OCR software...?)
That may be very difficult - I only remember one hint that there may
be suitable software - basically OCR freeware is very thin on the ground.
You will need to search the mailing list and net.
> (3) Convert FAX to GIF or PDF.
GIF should be straightforward. PDF can be done by roundabout means, but
it really requires someone to spend a few man days on a direct FAX to
PDF utility which directly embeds the G3 FAX data in a PDF wrapper.
> (4) Send email to a specific group of users that the fax has been
> received
> and is available in either text or GIF.
Basically all this would be done by the same script that does the
conversion; the supplied script just mails to single user, or to a user
determined by the transmitting station ID information from the sending
fax machine (this is what is typically displayed on a real fax machine
to identify the remote machine).
> Do you have any pointers to Unix OCR software?
No. Not personally.
> Do you have any pointers to a graphic converter that could handle TIFF/F
> format?
The TIFF utilities that are included in the TIFF library source that is
needed to compile Hylafax. You can then use some combination of NETPBM,
Ghostscript, Image Magick, etc., to get to other formats (including a
rather bulky PDF format).
> (Failing that, your pointers to tiffview for Windows and viewfax for
> Unix should suffice.)
> Can HylaFax send email as in (4) above?
You will need to adapt the script to do exactly as you want.
> Finally, is there a version of HylaFax that runs on Windows rather than
> Unix?
No, it is very platform dependent.
