Online fax services
A person can be communicated through various modes. The technology has seen a major development in recent years and millions od people are working on it every day and each and filed is visualizing such developments. Fax machine is used to communicate scanned copy of a document from one fax machine to the other and the end user recives the document. This can be done globally. Basically, let us first get to know what is a fax machine – it is a simple electronic instrument where in a scanner, modem, a printer all are in built in it. The dat is transmitted in the form of pulses through a telephone line to the end user through another fax machine which is at the other end and then transforms the received impulses into images and then finally it is printed on a paper.
In the traditional method of faxing the above method is used wherein in the metod of internet fax the internet is used for transferring the documents. There are more advanatges over using the internet fas such as no extra telephone line is required to fax the documents, as it is integrated with email it becomes a paperless communication, more number of faxes can be sent and received simultaneously, and in total the telephone cost is reduced. Using the internet fax provider the subscriber can interact with the servers, and the subscribers are assigned a dedicated fax number which can be used to interact using the similar methods which is available for standard fax servers. The fees for these service is charged on a monthly rate.
Apart from this Internet fax method there are several methods used to send and receive a file via fax is the extension of computer-based faxing, where in a fax server or a gateway is used to convert between faxes and emails. This is the most advantageous method in internet fax field.
In online fax method the user is allowed to access his account on the provider site via the Web server from his computer. When the recipient selects the particular fax number and the file which has to be sent the document will be automatically into a PDF or TIFF document and then sent to the end reciever and is been converted again according to the format provided by the user. A confirmation email will be sent to the end user, that the message was received by the end reciever.
The major advantages of this system are no fax machine is used – so cost on maintenance, paper and toner are being reduced. The mobility of the service is increased as the basic provider is a web interface the service is available everywhere in the world. The confidentiality will be maintained as only the end user recieves the file and the chances of lossing the paper is drawn out. The cost is been reduced on the subscription for an additional line which will be dedicated to the fax. N number of faxes can be sent and received simultaneously and the fax messages can be received even when the computer is been switched off. The last but not the least adavantage is no specialized software or hardware is needed to be installed in the computer – as all services are based web interface.