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How to fax over the internet (for beginners)

The digital revolution has resulted in creating a huge transformation in the communication sector and has achieved unbelievable breakthroughs in creating new methods of transmitting information. One such example is the possibility of sending and receiving a fax over the internet. In this article, find out how to fax over the internet.

Free and paid online faxing services

Sending faxes over the internet is called efaxing. Web fax services allow you to send fax from pc or receive faxes in the form of email attachments. Free online faxing services In order to entice new customers, many online faxing service providers allow users to send a specific number of e-fax per month for free. In some cases, free users are allowed to only receive faxes, but need to upgrade to the paid user scheme in order send fax from PC. Paid e-fax services Web fax service providers come up with beneficial schemes for customers in order to send fax to PC or receive faxes over the internet for an affordable monthly subscription fee. In certain cases, these e-fax services allow users to send a fixed number of electronic fax free as part of the subscription package.

How to fax from computer

Instead of the fax machine, e-faxing uses a web interface to send or receive faxes. This means that your PC needs to be connected to the internet, but does not require a fax modem as in the conventional method of receiving or sending faxes. Hence, it is more cost-effective for document transmission. Sending faxes The sender needs to attach the document to an email. The document should be compatible for electronic fax. For example, word documents, image files or spreadsheet documents are compatible, whereas video files are not. The sender should type the fax number of the recipient followed by the name of the electronic fax service. Receive faxes The e-fax services translate the attachment to a format that is understood by the fax machine and sends the data to the receiver across a phone line. The recipient fax machine decodes the fax data and prints the document. You can also convert fax to email, in which case, the data is sent as an email attachment to the recipient

In conclusion

More than 40 different file formats can be transmitted using web fax. You need not install any new software or hardware for installing the electronic fax service as e-faxing is integrated to the existing software in your system by your service provider. You can receive faxes in PDF or TIFF formats.

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