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Mastering FreeSWITCH
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

by Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Fax and FreeSWITCH

Receiving and sending a fax in FreeSWITCH is excruciatingly simple, consisting of two applications:

  • rxfax (/path/where/to/write/TIFF)
  • txfax (/path/where/to/read/TIFF)

That's it. Isn't that a beauty? Thanks to the world-class work of Steve Underwood, the recognized Godfather of Digital Signal Processing, SpanDSP library is integrated into FreeSWITCH and, amid many other goodies, provides complete T30 and T38 fax communication support.

Note

FreeSWITCH sends and receives TIFF files. You must do all the necessary conversions (to/from PDF, and so on).

All the finer details of fax communication are determined by a mod_spandsp configuration file (overridable runtime for each application invocation) and by information contained in the TIFF ...

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ISBN: 9781784398880