Re: [hylafax-users] Fw: use fax machine as scanner

[Simon Woodhead <woodheads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Morning,

Can anyone point to documentation for doing this?

We currently have an analogue fax connected to the PBX and permitted to send internally only so a user pops the paper in, and dials his direct fax extension. The document is then delivered by email at which point he/she prints it to Hylafax and goes through the normal transmission process.

It would be simpler to give the analogue fax access to the outside world but not doing so was a conscious step to discourage users from printing a document and then faxing it the 'old way'. This way, it is much more convenient for them to fax it from their desktop but we still occasionally have paper to send.

I'd ideally like to be able to connect a scanner directly to the lan and for a user to be able to pop a document in it and send it to his/her desktop. From here it could be sent as a fax or used in other ways. The only experience I've got of this was using dreadful HP software which needed to be installed on every client PC - something we're keen to avoid repeating. A final step beyond this would be to have the scanner (or another scanner) sending documents directly in to Hylafax so the user simply gets the 'complete your fax' mail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Simon


Pedro Rocadas wrote:

Well, I can imagine a cheap usb Epson scanner, which
you can use as a source for a HylaFAX client, and they
are fast compared with the parallel port models.
Understandable that you prefer your fax machine, you
had spend money for it, but probably a extra device
will cost you as much as a scanner, which you can use
for other tasks and even you can share it over the
lan, if you have one. So, the scenario would be,
windows or linux doesn't mather, you pressing the
buttons for email or printing and calling the client.
I tested once with a HP and WHFC on windows and worked
fine.

--- PG <pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  

Cheap scanners are slow and not reliable (sometimes
crash my win box). On
the contrary, my fax machine can complete a scan in
3 seconds, reliably. I
can place paper in the fax machine, press a speed
dial, wait for couple of
seconds, get back the paper, and return to my seat
and wait for  the email
with the faxed documents.

I know PABX is an alternative, but as you say,
expensive.

Jason
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tony Wood
To: PG
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] use fax machine as
scanner


To do that you could use an analog PABX extension
but this is still
expensive if you don't have a pabx compared to
buying a cheap scanner. The
scanners these days will also give you better
resolution.

Regards,

T.



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