Method and system for facilitating paper to electronic...

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2006-07-18

2006-07-18

Williams, Kimberly (Department: 2626)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Communication

C358S407000, C379S100070, C379S100080, C379S100090

Reexamination Certificate

active

07079275

ABSTRACT:
A facsimile/email communication system for providing a user the ability to send emails from any standalone facsimile machine. The system does not require any additional hardware or software to be installed on equipment being used by a sender. The system further provides a user the ability to logon to a centralized web server and send facsimiles to any standalone fax machine. According to one aspect, the system receives a facsimile from a facsimile machine. The facsimile includes an email cover page having the email address of the intended recipient of the facsimile. The email address is extracted from the email cover page by optical character recognition. The facsimile is then converted into an email with the proper email format. The email is then transmitted to the extracted email address.

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