[Freeswitch-users] [OL]Re: best way to receive FAXs

[Karl Schmidt]

On 08/02/2013 03:02 PM, Brian Foster wrote:
> I've personally had issues with hylafax. I dont know what it is or how to fix it, but what I ended
> up doing is using mod_spandsp and dumping the received faxes into a couchdb database. I have an
> example here (http://github.com/bdfoster/fax-to-couchdb). It's rough, but it might give you some ideas.

Thanks - I had to go through 6 modems before I found one that did fax reliably - it is the firmware 
code in the modem that matters - and all of the big names failed. Worked with an external Supra Fax 
modem 144LC

If you ever need to get it to work, I can send my Debian configs.

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