Re: [hylafax-users] Extract text strings from fax

[Holger Raschke <holger.raschke@presse-data.de>]

> Hi everyone,
> Can we extract some text strings from the fax such as "To: Matthew" and then
> route this fax to a folder named "Matthew" so that all incoming faxes can be
> routed to the respective recipients' folders? would this be possible? Has
> anyone done this before and care to share how he/she did it?
> I converted the fax received to postscript and then tried to convert the
> postscript file to text file but the resulting text file is empty, or convert
> fax to postscript to pdf & then from pdf to text, the resulting text file is
> also empty, why is the resulting text file empty?

The received fax is a graphic in TIFF-Format. If converted to pdf it is 
just an embedded graphic.
What you need to do is OCR with the fax.
I don't know any "free" solution, that works "out of the box".

--
Holger



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