Hello Steve. On 17/05/2005, at 10:54 PM, Steve Underwood wrote:> When a fax is received the header you see is part of the image. As > such, it ends up in the TIFF file as part of the image. It is not > available as text anywhere. The only way to make it available as > text would be to implement OCR. That is complex and messy, and I > have no intention to try. The only information sent between the FAX > machines as text is the "identifier" - a 20 character string, which > the standard says should be digits, and which is usually set to the > telephone number of the FAX machine.That's exactly what I was referring to. Is there any way to display that in the image received? As I wrote previously I usually don't get the sender's callerID, but I do get the phone number printed when receiving with a usual fax machine. It would be nice to get this information with spandsp too To send a fax I'm still using our Brother fax unit, works well... Sorry for not using a new threads before... I thought about it, but the title was correct :) JY --- Jean-Yves Avenard Hydrix Pty Ltd - Embedding the net www.hydrix.com | fax +61 3 95722686 | office +61 3 8573 5299 | direct +61 3 8573 5200 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050517/d87e1fba/attachment.htm
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:> Hello Steve. > > On 17/05/2005, at 10:54 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: > >> When a fax is received the header you see is part of the image. As >> such, it ends up in the TIFF file as part of the image. It is not >> available as text anywhere. The only way to make it available as text >> would be to implement OCR. That is complex and messy, and I have no >> intention to try. The only information sent between the FAX machines >> as text is the "identifier" - a 20 character string, which the >> standard says should be digits, and which is usually set to the >> telephone number of the FAX machine. > > > That's exactly what I was referring to. Is there any way to display > that in the image received? > As I wrote previously I usually don't get the sender's callerID, but I > do get the phone number printed when receiving with a usual fax > machine. It would be nice to get this information with spandsp too > > To send a fax I'm still using our Brother fax unit, works well... > > Sorry for not using a new threads before... I thought about it, but > the title was correct :)The header is always in the received image. The TIFF file contains exactly the same image that a receiving FAX machine would print out. Regards, Steve
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Steve Underwood wrote:> The header is always in the received image. The TIFF file contains > exactly the same image that a receiving FAX machine would print out.I think he is refering to the remote fax id to be presented, not the header. I.e. the 20 digit user selectable number on the remote fax. The one often seen on the lcd of the receiving fax and so on. Peter