On Wed, 18 May 2005, Steve Underwood wrote: > Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > > On my Brother's fax machine (MFC-8820D) today, I've received 3 faxes: > > all of them at the top showed the caller Fax identity. > > I received 2 faxes on Asterisk with spandsp, one from the same sender > > as earlier on the brother: there's nothing at the top. > > > > I wouldn't ask if it was obvious the data was inside the image, give > > me some credits for God's sake ! > > What you are describing is something I have never seen a FAX machine do.
> > Typically, when somebody is sending a fax on the Brother unit, once > > the connection has been established the identity of the fax caller is > > then displayed on the Brother's LCD (and this has nothing to do with > > PSTN CallerID), what is displayed on the LCD will be printed at the > > top of each pages. This is this behavior I'm trying to reproduce with > > Asterisk/Spandsp. > > So you get the calling machine's number shown twice at the top of each > page? Once in this extra header, and once in the normal header sent as > part of the image? Weird. FAX machines don't normally do that. Does this > extra header overlay a part of the page, or does it make the page one > line longer? Both the fax machines at work have a setting to add a header on received faxes. The information it adds is the page number, the sending machine id, name (if the sending machine id is in the speed dial list), and date+time. The original poster is not alone in having machines work this way. > Spandsp puts the calling machine's number in one of the tag fields in > the TIFF headers. It puts several things in those tags - the name of the > software which generated the file (spandsp), the hostname of the > receiving computer, the far machine's ident, the far machine's maker and > model (if they can be identified). Programs like tiffdump will show that > information. Some image viewers also allow you to see it (don't ask me > which ones off hand). Well, this should solve the original poster's problem. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
