[Asterisk-Users] Print-to-Fax client

Nicolás Gudiño
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:59:12 -0000

> What about a driver that will send the print out to Asterisk, on the same
> network to be sent as Fax ?
> Is there anything that already exists for this?

Hello,

Several months ago I worked on such a solution using salsafax. The
problem was on how to determine the fax number to send the fax to. I
tried with OCR but had a 60% success rate extracting the number. It
was cool for me but not good for a bussiness.

FYI, salsafax is a script for use with Samba and CUPS/Lpr. Basically
you export a printer to the network, and then you can setup that
network printer in your windows/samba clients and print to it. Then
you have to convert the postrcript file to .tiff to be used by txfax.

Another problem is that I do not know if spandsp can return the status
of the fax after it is sent, so you know if it was received ok or not.

Regards,


> Quoting Florian Overkamp <florian@obsimref.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> You should be able to download one (for WIndows and possibly Mac)
from
> >> efax or j2.com I think.
> >>
> >> http://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/page/download?rqcp=2
> >>
> >> http://www.j2.com/jconnect/twa/page/download
> >
> > You might be able to do that, but take a good look at the license
agreement
> > on the driver - you might not be allowed to use the software fully
without
> > having a subscription to their services.
> >
> > Florian
> >
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Nicol?s Gudi?o
Buenos Aires - Argentina