Re: [hylafax-users] Faxing with a scanner

[Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:21:23 +0200
Olivier Saulnier <interchim.comp@interchim.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone has realized a system for faxing since a scanner, without 
> a lot of manipulations?? Do you have suggestions about that??
> 

Linux/GNU offers a lot of capability.  Essentially, use scanimage,
a command line tool from the SANE package, in conjunction with
tiffcp from libtiff and then sendfax:

scanimage --format tiff > file.tif
tiffcp -c g3 file.tif > file.tiffg3
sendfax file.tiffg3

Of course, the process can be tweaked considerably to suit your needs.

For batch processing, a script can be used.

Consult the man pages for all the details.

Frank Peters

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