asterisk users - Nov 2012 - Incoming Fax to Recipient using OCR

I have fax working but since most people and services don't know how to 
Fax to Extensions,
I installed tesseract to convert the Fax to Text.

I really only need the First Page converted and will tell Faxers to make 
sure they put To: Name on the cover page.

tesseract is converting the entire fax fine but its unnecessary and 
extra time to convert the entire fax.

I searched and can't find anything on how to tell it just to do the 
first page.  Does anyone have any ideas?

I created a perl script I borrowed but I don't know PERL.

I know PHP so can someone show me how to use REGEX in Perl to search the 
output.txt file for the to: name or TO: NAME or To: Name

Then I want to do something like:

Switch($to) {
Case: "Roy" -> Email user at gmail.com
Case: "Jeff" -> Email user at yahoo.com
Default:
     Email admin at domain.com
}

-- 
Co-op Vacation Rentals
www.coopvr.com
15218 Summit Ave
Suite #300-354
Fontana, CA 92336
Phone/Fax (855) 760-COOP (2667)

I have fax working but since most people and services don't know how to 
Fax to Extensions,
I installed tesseract to convert the Fax to Text.

I really only need the First Page converted and will tell Faxers to make 
sure they put To: Name on the cover page.

tesseract is converting the entire fax fine but its unnecessary and 
extra time to convert the entire fax.

I searched and can't find anything on how to tell it just to do the 
first page.  Does anyone have any ideas?

I created a perl script I borrowed but I don't know PERL.

I know PHP so can someone show me how to use REGEX in Perl to search the 
output.txt file for the to: name or TO: NAME or To: Name

Then I want to do something like:

Switch($to) {
Case: "Roy" -> Email user at gmail.com
Case: "Jeff" -> Email user at yahoo.com
Default:
     Email admin at domain.com
}

-- 
Co-op Vacation Rentals
www.coopvr.com
15218 Summit Ave
Suite #300-354
Fontana, CA 92336
Phone/Fax (855) 760-COOP (2667)

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Roy Abshire <roy at coopvr.com> wrote:
> I have fax working but since most people and services don't know how to
> Fax to Extensions,
> I installed tesseract to convert the Fax to Text.
>
> I really only need the First Page converted and will tell Faxers to make
> sure they put To: Name on the cover page.
>
> tesseract is converting the entire fax fine but its unnecessary and extra
> time to convert the entire fax.
>
> I searched and can't find anything on how to tell it just to do the
first
> page.  Does anyone have any ideas?


If you're passing a TIFF file to tesseract, you can pass it through
imagemagick first to pop off the first "page". This really seems
off-topic
for Asterisk.

-- 
-Chris Harrington
ACSDi Office: 763.559.5800
Mobile Phone: 612.326.4248
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