Moderated Windows fax and scan?


Jay
 

Hello all.

 

I’m wondering, what’s the best fax and scanning app to use? I’ve looked at Windows Fax and Scan, but looks like it only scans images. Is this true, or is there a way to scan actual documents and read them or send them as a fax? I’ve never faxed anything before so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. I have a brother printer that does both faxing and scanning as well as printing so any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated as I said before.

 

Thanks.

 

Justin Coffin


Ann Byrne
 

I use Windows fax and scan when I need an exact replica of a document. You can tinker around so that it produces text, but the image of text is adequate if you aren't saving the document for a screen reader.

At 07:11 AM 3/24/2023, you wrote:

Hello all.



I'm wondering, what's the best fax and scanning app to use? I've looked at Windows Fax and Scan, but looks like it only scans images. Is this true, or is there a way to scan actual documents and read them or send them as a fax? I've never faxed anything before so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. I have a brother printer that does both faxing and scanning as well as printing so any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated as I said before.



Thanks.



Justin Coffin


John Covici
 

You can use email to fax services to do this -- they are quite costly,
but some of them have free trials if you only need to do a single
item.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:18:09 -0400,
Ann Byrne wrote:

I use Windows fax and scan when I need an exact replica of a
document. You can tinker around so that it produces text, but
the image of text is adequate if you aren't saving the document
for a screen reader.

At 07:11 AM 3/24/2023, you wrote:

Hello all.



I'm wondering, what's the best fax and scanning app to use?
I've looked at Windows Fax and Scan, but looks like it only
scans images. Is this true, or is there a way to scan actual
documents and read them or send them as a fax? I've never faxed
anything before so if anyone can help that would be greatly
appreciated. I have a brother printer that does both faxing and
scanning as well as printing so any help on this topic would be
greatly appreciated as I said before.



Thanks.



Justin Coffin




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K0LNY
 

Hey Jay,
You can scan a document, save it as a JPG file, and use Jaws convenient OCR on it from the context menu without even opening the JPG image.
Glenn

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 7:11 AM
Subject: Windows fax and scan?

Hello all.

 

I’m wondering, what’s the best fax and scanning app to use? I’ve looked at Windows Fax and Scan, but looks like it only scans images. Is this true, or is there a way to scan actual documents and read them or send them as a fax? I’ve never faxed anything before so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. I have a brother printer that does both faxing and scanning as well as printing so any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated as I said before.

 

Thanks.

 

Justin Coffin