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Re: Fax content checking.



On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:40:14PM +0100, Andrew Webb wrote:
> 	Is is possible to perform some sort of content checking on documents that
> are sent to Hylafax to be send out ? Most users will send documents via the
> printer method from Word 97. Any ideas on how I can rigidly enforce a scan
> for keywords at some stage in the process ?

Unlikely.  The printer driver is that last piece of code that is
guaranteed to have text as _text_.  You might be able to use a
postscript to ascii converter at the server, but there's not way to
guarantee that any given page will be completely recoverable.

Cheers,
-- jra
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