On Tuesday 26 February 2008 17:46:28 Tilman Baumann wrote: > Nils Faerber wrote: > > Ricky Fitz schrieb: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just had the idea that it would be nice, to make OpenMoko to act as a > >> fax-receiver, convert the fax to PDF and do somethin' with it. > >> > >> Is this possible, already implemented, or is software out there which > >> can be used on the Neo/Freerunner to do that? > > > > Depends largely on the modem, i.e. if it can handle analog incoming fax > > transmissions. The rest should be quite easy. There are a lot of > > utilities around to receive a G3 fax from a modem (like mgetty-sendfax) > > and to convert the resulting G3 into something more useful, like PNG or > > even PDF. > > Never ever will a GSM module be a G3 Fax. (IMHO) > And everything else is just hell. Fax and software don't go well together. > > I don't thing this idea has potential. Out source the problem to any fax > provider and let others feel the pain. > Fax is dead. >
yep, instead one should start to see printers with a built in mailing system so that one could assign a mail address to it, and have it auto-print said mail, complete with attachments of it came in pdf or odf... _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community