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.
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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.
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