I do not use any of these services anymore. I now use the fax feature of my
betwork printer. I used one of these services several years ago. I had not
seen any that are free recently.
Typically, these free on-line fax services have a limit of outgoing faxes
before they charge any fees. There big sell is to provide an incoming fax
service where people send you a fax by calling their fax number associated
with your account. They automatically email you with an image of the fax
attached or a link to their website to view the fax image. This is an
attractive way to handle incoming faxes if necessary. The trick here is to
find a service to perform OCR on the image to provide readable text or
perform OCR on your computer.
I just submitted a new free OCR package for Vinux this morning, which now
handles all image types, including PDF and Postscript.
Don Marang
Vinux Software Development Coordinator (vinux.org.uk)
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real
substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working
on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Alan Dicey" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:50 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Free Internet Fax Service
Dear Gerald,
This sounds like a great service.
Will you please keep us all up to date on how you made out using this
service?
Thanks!
With Best Regards,
Alan
Miami, Florida
Alan Dicey, President
United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA
"Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess!"
United States Braille Chess Association Home Page:
http://AmericanBlindChess.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]>
To: "blind-computing" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 9:51 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Free Internet Fax Service
Hi gang. Has anyone used one of the free Internet fax services like
Myfax.com/free to send faxes over the Internet? I recently received a
form that had to be filled out and signed and was thinking of scanning it
with Open Book, saving it as a .tif file, and sending it to the recipient
using the free Myfax.com service. will this work, or is this one of
those too good to be true deals? This seems like a good option for
occasional faxing. It seems to have a very simple interface and would
sure beat buying and installing a fax modem especially since I need to
send faxes only once in a great while. Thanks for any feedback.
Gerald
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