Re: [hylafax-users] Email body customization

[Anton Karpov <anton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lee

I was afraid this is a case, since there is no such value in a log.

Than you clarifying it for me

Anton

Lee Howard wrote:
> Anton Karpov wrote:
>
> > Received fax image has a top line that looks like this ( example ):
> >
> > JAN-30-2006    09:49AM FROM-Some Company     555555555 ... and so on
> >
> > I wonder if it's possible to include "FROM" value into the email body 
> > that is sent to the FaxDispatch recipient? 
>
>
> That top line is part of the image data that is sent by the sender.  So 
> as far as faxgetty is concerned, it's just a bunch of black and white 
> dots... it doesn't become words and other meaningful information until 
> your brain sees those dots and makes sense of it.
>
> It would certainly be possible to use an optical character recognition 
> program such as gOCR to read this and do something with it, such as 
> placing it in the e-mail body.  That's an excersize that's left up to 
> the admin, though.  :-)
>
> I suspect that the tagline will generally be one of the few parts that 
> will reliably be decipherable with OCR.  The rest of the fax image, with 
> skew and other distortions will be more difficult for OCR to pull out.
>
> Lee.


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