Internet faxing a new technology

Facsimile, popularly known as faxing is used for transmitting documents from one place to another. In earlier days faxing was done with the help of telephone line. A fax machine which was the combination of scanner, modem and printer used to transmit data in the form of pulses. Then the telephone line converts this data in form of images and subsequently it was printed in another fax machine.  However traditional faxing has to undergo from many obstacles. There should have telephone line, both sender’s and receiver’s facsimile machine should be turn on. However data transmission used to take time. Only one document could be transferred at a time. Document to be transmitted should be written or printed on hard copy.

After conventional machine, computer faxing emerged. In this there is no need of any phone connection or a machine. In this case a hard copy of document is not needed. In this faxing, the data to be transmitted and sent to another person on his fax machine through modem. However this method of faxing also has some drawbacks. The computer should be turned on while the process goes on. The computer which is sending document should have the required software. However receiver’s computer cannot read data without optical character recognition system.

Considering these disadvantages of traditional method, Internet fax is used widely nowadays. In this case the transmitted document is sent through the cyber space. There are many advantages of this new utility. There is no need of any software. No phone bills have to be paid. We can fax from any place where we can get net connection. We can send or receive any number of documents at a time.

The method of sending documents online is simple. The sender has to connect the receiver’s site and add his fax number. Then he has to upload the documents which he wants to transmit. This document is then converted in to Portable Document Format or Tagged Image File Format, whichever was commanded by sender.

The major advantage the document goes receiver’s email account which helps to keep secrecy of data. Online faxing can also be done with mobile phone or tablet PCs.  There are many fax companies who have entered in business. Durofax.com, faxzero, pam fax, myfax, popfax.com are the examples of service providers online. These companies offer free thirty day trial for users to judge their services.