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From: frans@phcisa.UUCP (Francois Staes)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Telefax coupled to a Unix machine
Message-ID: <356@phcisa.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 15:17:13 GMT
Reply-To: phcisa!frans@nluug.nl.UUCP (Francois Staes)
Organization: Philips Ned. PASS-AIT Eindhoven The Netherlands
Lines: 36

Hello,

I'm currently searching for a telefax which can be coupled to a Unix 
machine ( A Sun in particular ).

I would like to have the following functionality :

- Incoming faxes have to be sent to the local laser-writer printer
  instead of being printed on the normal thermal paper.

- Previewing of incoming faxes on the screen ( not really an important
  requirement since there exists postscript-previewers ).

- Texts from the normal tex-processors have to be sent away using the
  fax ( without first printing and scanning them ). In fact, it would
  be nice to feed the fax with postscript since all our tex-processing
  is printed on a postscript printer.

- Scanned images have to be faxed. ( Of course )

- It would be nice to be able to have OCR software which understands the
  scanned format ( and the format of incoming faxes ).

Is there any company which sells this stuff, or parts of it ?

Best regards,

Francois Staes
Nederlands Philips Bedrijven
PASS - AIT
HCM503
P.O. Box 218
NL - 5600 MD Eindhoven.
The Netherlands

Email : mcvax!phcisa!frans