Excellent info!!   ------------------------ Keith Smith On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:58 AM, "joe@actionline.com" wrote: A few ideas that may be useful to someone: 1) There are several services that provide a free phone number by which to receive faxes by email free. We use one of those. 2) When I need a document "scanned," I use either my cell phone camera or my Nexus7 tablet which 3) On the *rare* occasion that I need to send a fax because email transmission of documents is not accepted, I use faxzero.com 4) Recently, I discovered 'tesseract' for OCR on Linux and it does an amazingly good job to convert jpg or pdf documents to text. So, I often take a snapshot of a document with my Nexus 7 tablet and scan the result with tesseract to get text. Works great! We do have a cheap Canon printer/scanner/fax in a back room, but now I rarely go there to use it for anything. Just FWIW. ---------------- Keith last wrote: > I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to > standup to go to the scanner to scan in docs.  This is great, and I have > done it in the past, however the manufacturer of my  all-in-one > printer/fax/scanner/copier has not released drivers that work in windows > 7 or 8 and I am not sure what is going on with Linux. > > As for cost,  I have a business voice line and I added a second number > that has distinct ringing that activates the fax.  On the off chance I am > on the phone when a fax is inbound, it goes to voice mail and I can send > it to the fax when I dial into my voice mail.  All this is an extra > couple bucks a month.  Much cheaper than fax by email.  And at this point > works just find.  I see not need to buy new hardware so I can scan docs.  --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss