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Hi Tim, No hardware - been done, see rxfax. Dumps it to a tiff, you can do whatever you want with it (email it out, convert to pdf, send to a printer .. OCR and voice to speech it and play it over the PA system ... :) -d At 01:07 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote:>How hard would it be to write (or has this been done?) a module that would >receive a fax and save or deliver the file? Would you need any hardware at >all ? >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050131/852f3760/attachment.htm
No Hardware ?? ummmm only so whats going to determine its a fax ? you need a dedicated box if you have no line card in the box. asterisk + SIP is not capable of determining whats a fax and whats voice..... you need a card unless you have a dedicated number On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:12 -0600, denon wrote:> Hi Tim, > > No hardware - been done, see rxfax. Dumps it to a tiff, you can do > whatever you want with it (email it out, convert to pdf, send to a > printer .. OCR and voice to speech it and play it over the PA > system ... :) > > -d > > At 01:07 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote: > > How hard would it be to write (or has this been done?) a module that > > would receive a fax and save or deliver the file? Would you need any > > hardware at all ? > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- skamp <skamp@arkayinc.com>
Tim Connolly wrote:> How hard would it be to write (or has this been done?) a module that > would receive a fax and save or deliver the file? Would you need any > hardware at all ? >Can you explain what you mean by "over softphone"? Are you looking for a softphone on a PC which can also send FAXes to an Asterisk box? Are you looking for FAX functionality in the Asterisk box itself? Providing FAX facilities in software within Asterisk is very hard, However, thankfully, its done :-). rxfax and txfax provide that. They are really intended for exchanging FAXes with PSTN lines connected to the Asterisk box. If you try sending FAXes over VoIP your success rate will be poor (if you use A-law or u-law) to zero (if you use any other codec). You really need to used a proper FoIP protocol, like T.38. Support for that within Asterisk is not finished. Regards, Steve