[asterisk-users] Incoming Fax to Recipient using OCR

[Christopher Harrington]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Roy Abshire <roy at coopvr.com> wrote:

> I have fax working but since most people and services don't know how to
> Fax to Extensions,
> I installed tesseract to convert the Fax to Text.
>
> I really only need the First Page converted and will tell Faxers to make
> sure they put To: Name on the cover page.
>
> tesseract is converting the entire fax fine but its unnecessary and extra
> time to convert the entire fax.
>
> I searched and can't find anything on how to tell it just to do the first
> page.  Does anyone have any ideas?



If you're passing a TIFF file to tesseract, you can pass it through
imagemagick first to pop off the first "page". This really seems off-topic
for Asterisk.

-- 
-Chris Harrington
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