Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax ?

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:36:32AM -0400, Rafiq Mateen wrote:
> My name is SSgt Mateen, USAF, and I work at USUHS (www.usuhs.mil).

Welcome aboard.  I'd's say ", sir", but you work for a living.  :-)

> I would like to pick the group's brain if I could. I too have been
> tasked to provide a cheap faxing solution. Working at a college there
> are tons of fax machines working overtime. I've been tasked with
> setting up a system where there is one centralized fax-in phone number
> for the university.

This oughtta be fun.

> From there I would need to read in the fax and disperse it to the
> person it belongs to. I've been tasked with setting up a database
> (done) with everyone's name and assigning them a faxid number. I will
> use the following page http://131.158.7.207/uis/Rafiq_HTML/fax2.html
> to allow people to find out what there faxid number is. Once the fax
> come in it will need to recognize the faxid number and then send the
> fax in an email to the person it belongs to. If the person is not
> found I will have to return a message to the fax machine saying what
> ever error occurred.

Oooh.

> The OCR will have to be tweaked so I can get the faxid number off the
> incoming fax. I will worry about sending an error fax after I have the
> other parts built. Steps will be put in place to keep the database
> current.


The OCR will have to be *found*, first.  You do realize that HylaFAX
doesn't come with any, and there, as yet, doesn't appear to be anything
reasonable in Open Source.  Well, at least, there wasn't when I looked
last, which was about 4 months back.

> It seems to have gone from a team effort with my just doing the
> PERL programming to my doing the whole thing.  Imagine that.
> If you have any suggestions please feel to email with them.  Thank you
> in advance.

My primary suggestion, other than "subscribe to hylafax-devel" is "if
you have any luck with OCR, please let us know.  :-)"

One other thing you might find useful; we've recently had reports that
if you can get your fax lines delivered via ISDN BRI, the ZyXel 2864i
ISDN faxmodem can extract the *called* directory number, and put it in
a place where you can use it for DID.  It is, so far as I know, the
only hardware that can do that practically, at the moment.  How it
actually works as a faxmodem, I don't believe the gent said, but ISTR
pretty decently...

Best of luck, and keep us up to date.

Cheers,
-- jra
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