Fax: The one simple and single service that is an inevitable part of digital life. No matter how much we advance in technology and talk about paperless offices and services, this is the one thing that doesn't seem to die, rather is unaffected. Whether you want to send a confirmation to that stupid rebate center or apply for a job, fax is the one thing that still holds the 'official status'. Moreover, it seems to be the parent of the scanning service, since every fax actually scans and prints the file at the other end. So, here the ways to tap this service and bring it into the online world. Sending fax online, is only possible if you possess a digital copy of the paper on your PC. So, a scanner is almost a must unless you have a picture or received a copy of the file from somewhere. And, sending fax online comes at a premium than receiving it online. Free Services:
Faxzero provides a service that is free, only if you can afford to have an 'Ad' printing out as part of the fax. And it allows only 3 pages per document. So, if you want to send a document officially, this is NOT the service. However it works the best, if you want to send something to a friend or family, where you can discard the Ad sent out.
Mobile Phone-Scan,Copy & Fax There are a bunch of websites which gives us the flexibility of converting pictures of whiteboards and documents from a meeting into a professional pdf files. You can just snap the non-electronic whiteboard after a meeting and have it available to you as an image file or a pdf file in an instant.
Scanr.com allows you to turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier, and fax. They say, if you can send an email from your camera phone to Scanr they will process and send it to you in email as PDF for free. Qipit.com is another service which does the same.
Paid Services: When compared to the above, there are a lot of paid services, to send fax online. Given below are the most popular ones. Why not use Windows?
Windows has an inbuilt fax machine, rather service. If you have a digital copy of whatever you want to fax, windows can do it for free, as long as you have an inbuilt modem in your machine. All it takes is to set up a Fax printer, just like you would do a printer and send whatever you want to fax to this printer.
A useful tool while doing so is Snappy Fax from http://www.snappysoftware.com
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