<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Excellent info!!<br><br><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:58 AM, "joe@actionline.com" <joe@actionline.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">A few ideas that may be useful to someone:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1) There are several services that provide a free phone number<br clear="none">by which to receive faxes by email free. We use
one of those.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">2) When I need a document "scanned," I use either my cell phone<br clear="none">camera or my Nexus7 tablet which<br clear="none"><br clear="none">3) On the *rare* occasion that I need to send a fax because<br clear="none">email transmission of documents is not accepted, I use faxzero.com<br clear="none"><br clear="none">4) Recently, I discovered 'tesseract' for OCR on Linux and it<br clear="none">does an amazingly good job to convert jpg or pdf documents to text.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So, I often take a snapshot of a document with my Nexus 7 tablet<br clear="none">and scan the result with tesseract to get text. Works great!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">We do have a cheap Canon printer/scanner/fax in a back room,<br clear="none">but now I rarely go there to use it for anything.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Just FWIW.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt2695320081"
id="yqtfd96856"><br clear="none">----------------<br clear="none">Keith last wrote:<br clear="none">> I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to<br clear="none">> standup to go to the scanner to scan in docs. This is great, and I have<br clear="none">> done it in the past, however the manufacturer of my all-in-one<br clear="none">> printer/fax/scanner/copier has not released drivers that work in windows<br clear="none">> 7 or 8 and I am not sure what is going on with Linux.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> As for cost, I have a business voice line and I added a second number<br clear="none">> that has distinct ringing that activates the fax. On the off chance I am<br clear="none">> on the phone when a fax is inbound, it goes to voice mail and I can send<br clear="none">> it to the fax when I dial into my voice mail. All this is an extra<br clear="none">> couple
bucks a month. Much cheaper than fax by email. And at this point<br clear="none">> works just find. I see not need to buy new hardware so I can scan docs. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">---------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br clear="none">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>