Hi Terry,
Terry Goodwin wrote:
Damn! :-(
Now that I have spandsp working on my * I was going to try and get it working with hylafax.
Is there any other means of faxing from the desktop (windows PC) via asterisk?
The solution needs to be "user friendly". I like the solution that allows the user to "print" from an application (word, notepad, browser, terminal session, etc) to a fax driver which in turn connects to the * server for transmission. A bonus would be that the faxing application kept a "directory" of the numbers the user faxed to for easy repeat faxing.
I have a half implemented solution based on salsafax. Basically, you have to configure cups and samba to export a printer to the network, then you can print from any workstation to the network printer. Pros: you do not need any special driver on the workstations. Cons: it does not always work.
The problem I found is that there is no reliable way to indicate the fax number where the document should be sent. Salsafax extract the information from the ps file generated (you have to use a special syntax in the document for the fax number), but most of the time salsafax fails to decode the text, so it cannot send the fax.
So I tried harder, and modified it to perform and OCR of the document and try to extract the number that way. It work 75% of the time. Its kind of user friendly, but its not reliable.
I think that the best solution would be to implement a web interfase so you can specify the destination numbers from there. 1) You print to the fax machine 2) Enter a web page and specify the fax number/s where the new document should be sent 3) lets asterisk/spandsp do the job.
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