On Sun, 5 Apr 2026 22:32:14 -0400 Evan Leibovitch via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Last night, in April of 2026, I achieved a milestone on my Linux system. I was able to scan a document and fax it.
Evan, Way back in the antediluvian past, I paused banging rocks with other rocks to send faxes from my GNU/Linux box. I generated a PostScript file from OpenOffice, then I used the command line tool efax to send it. Efax is still installed on my system, but it has been at least twenty years since I have used it. If you have an Epson scanner, you can locate and download "iscan". This is Open Source, rather than Free, but it is user friendly, and integrated with GIMP. If you are scanning documents into PDF, look for "simple-scan". I believe it is part of a Fedora installation, and it works very nicely. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson