km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (05/15/89)
Apologies in advance, I am largely ignorant about what FAX systems are
available. I basically know that there are standalone FAX machines
with built in scanners and printers, and IBM PC and MAC add-ons which I
imagine are designed for manual operation on single user systems.
What I am interest in is add-on hardware/software for a Sun network
with the following characteristics:
1) The hardware attaches to the server.
2) The hardware auto-answers the phone, receives the image, and
triggers software to put the image in a spool directory.
3) Ideally the spooled images are tagged with some identifying
information that determines a user for which the image is destined.
The user is notified of the arrival by mail. At worst the system
administrator is notified and figures out who to notify.
4) Software filters are needed to transform the images for both screen
viewing (say by X) and printing (say in Postscript).
5) Scanning hardware is needed to input hardcopy.
6) Software filters are needed to convert the scanned input into a file
appropriate for FAX transmission, as well as filters to convert existing
bitmaps and Postscript files to FAX format.
7) Software is needed to spool outgoing FAX for transmissions. The
queue is serviced when the receiving hardware is idle, with provision
for periodic retries if the transfer is unsuccessful.
8) It is a real plus if the scanner can also be used for OCR.
9) It is a real plus if the modem hardware can also be used for normal
tty conections (getty,uucp,tip,kermit) if the incoming call is not FAX,
or the outgoing connection does not select FAX mode.
Is a package anything like this available? How close can I come?
The reference to a "Sun network" is for definiteness. I really mean a
Unix workstaion network with the usual network/NFS/X/NeWS connections.
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