Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!telecom-request From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Easy Fax to ASCII? Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 00:37:55 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: The World Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 431, Message 8 of 10 If this one has already been beaten to death, please forgive me, but... Probably nobody gets more junk fax than a newsroom, and we are getting tired of going through reams of expensive fax paper, so we're looking at replacing the machine with a computer and fax board. Our computer gurus have found some software that will turn a fax message into a PCX or TIFF file and another program that will convert THAT into ASCII, and want to write a bath file to transmit that into our main system. The problem is this has to be done for each individual fax, because the software they want to use (ReadRight is one of the programs) apparently can't be automated. Unfortunately, it all seems more complex than the average reporter or editor is willing to deal with, especially since we probably get 40-50 faxes (maybe more; I've never counted) a day. Does anybody know of any decent software for turning fax into ASCII, preferably automatically, or, at the least, through macros? Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks! Adam Gaffin Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass. adamg@world.std.com Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461