OT: Managing a Contact List

[keith smith]

Excellent info!!



 
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Keith Smith



On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:58 AM, "joe at actionline.com" <joe at 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.



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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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