Re: [hylafax-users] Routing incoming faxes via info on the coverpage?

["Josh Welch" <jwelch@buffalowildwings.com>]

> Is it possible to route incoming faxes based on info on the coverpage?
>
> For instance, if an incoming faxed contained
>
> To: Bob Tanner <tanner@realtime.com>
>
> you could put some code into the etc/FaxDispatch to parse(?) out the email
> address and deliver the mail appropriately?
>
> I'd like to mimic some of the functionality of I've seen in
> unified messaging
> productions under Windows.
>
> My approach might be wrong. More generally, is there a way to
> have just 1 fax
> phone number, but still be able to deliver faxes via email to the people
> identified on the fax cover page?
>
> I'm assuming faxmaster would be the default address if there was
> no cover page.
>
> --
> Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>         | Phone : (952)943-8700
> http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax   : (952)943-8500
> Key fingerprint =  6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9

This would be pretty tough at this time as you would be effectively trying
to read an image, the incoming fax is a tiff. Thee was some rumblings about
using an OCR solution for this exact type of thing, but I don't think anyone
ever tried to do anything with it. Once an image comes through a fax
transmission there is invariably image degradation, and lots of time people
handwrite the cover pages, and the information get written on different
parts of the page, there are a lot of issues with this approach. I really
don't think there is anything available along what you propose. We went from
having our secretary manually sorting faxes and putting them in mailboxes to
having our secretary sorting and fowarding emails.

Say hi to Nate for me :)

Josh


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