Re: Faxing with Perl

Have you done a google search for "fax over internet". There are a number of sites and programs to send and receive faxes like email. Maybe if you found the right combo, you could do the form submissions with LWP. I thought about it awhile back, but figured email was easier anyhow.

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Re: Re: Faxing with Perl by Willard B. Trophy (Hermit) on Dec 23, 2002 at 20:40 UTC
A service like Protus Fax will do what you want, and you don't need a phone line. All they do is issue with a number for receiving faxes (which just arrive at the designated e-mail account), and a password which you put at the top of any messages you wish to fax. As it supports MIME attachments, you could easily automate sending with MIME::Lite or similar. I can't help you with receiving faxes, beyond saying that Protus sends them back as TIFF. We have ways of making TIFFs more friendly ... -- $,="\n";foreach(split('',"\3\3\3c>\0>c\177cc\0~c~``\0cc\177cc")) {$a++;$_=unpack('B8',$_);tr,01,\40#,;$b[$a%6].=$_};print@b,"\n"	[reply]

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Re: Re: Faxing with Perl
by Willard B. Trophy (Hermit) on Dec 23, 2002 at 20:40 UTC

Protus Fax

don't

All they do is issue with a number for receiving faxes (which just arrive at the designated e-mail account), and a password which you put at the top of any messages you wish to fax. As it supports MIME attachments, you could easily automate sending with MIME::Lite or similar.

I can't help you with receiving faxes, beyond saying that Protus sends them back as TIFF. We have ways of making TIFFs more friendly ...

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$,="\n";foreach(split('',"\3\3\3c>\0>c\177cc\0~c~``\0cc\177cc")) {$a++;$_=unpack('B8',$_);tr,01,\40#,;$b[$a%6].=$_};print@b,"\n"

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