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Intelligent Fax Management System

Fax machines have become a ubiquitous equipment in today’s office environment due to its ability to send information around with speed and convenience. Increasingly many personal computers nowadays are able to play the role of a fax machine by adding in a fax card and the relevant software. This paper proposes a Fax Management System employing character recognition technique to enhance the basi...

Multimedia Fax-MIME Interworking

In this paper we present the architecture of an application level fax-Internet gateway, and show how such a gateway could be utilised to facilitate multimedia messaging and to extend Internet services to the home or office. We propose the application of the latest developments in the facsimile and Internet worlds, notably MIME and BFT support for G3 protocols, for the exchange of multimedia mes...

Automatic Fax Routing

We present a system for automatic FAX routing which processes incoming FAX images and forwards them to the correct email alias. The system first performs optical character recognition to find words and in some cases parts of words (we have observed error rates as high as 10 to 20 percent). For all these “noisy” words, a set of features is computed which include internal text features, location ...

A FAX Reader for the Blind

We describe an experiment in which a blind person places arbitrary printed pages in a FAX machine and soon afterwards hears the contents read out loud over the telephone by a synthesized voice. This study focuses on technical issues including the accuracy achievable by stateof-the-art optical character recognition operating on FAX images, methods to improve the intelligibility of synthesized sp...