[Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

[tom]

This sounds very promising. Looks like something along the lines of
store-and-forward fax might not be too far off : ).

Thanks,

Tom

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 08:49, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> Figured the group would like to hear this. I just faxed a sample
> document from a real fax machine to asterisk semi successfully. I'll
> consider it just semi successfully for now because either I haven't
> found a viewer that puts the image in proper aspect ratio or the storage
> is screwy. I'm thinking it may be the fact that image apps expect the
> file to be in X by X dpi not X by Y. Otherwise it was readable.
> 
> Also I was able to take the resulting tiff file and create a sample call
> file that then sent the file back out to the real fax machine
> successfully. The output was nearly identical to the original with the
> exception of being darker. I'll attribute that to cheap fax machine with
> crappy scan head.
> 
> Otherwise, Great job.
> 
> So far this is my bug list. 
> 
> 1. Makefile uses a include and library directory from /home/steveu.
> 
> 2. Shouldn't make install for the spandsp library put the headers and
> libraries in the proper locations so we don't have to make special
> include links?
> 
> Basically if #2 is fixed, then #1 will not need those paths.
>