Connecting fax to a website

I'm building an online file management system for a certain workflow. 开发者_StackOverflow社区One of the services of this system should be as follows: whenever a fax is received, it should be saved in a certain table in the database as a PDF file. I'm using ASP.NET with C# .. Is it possible to perform that task without the need for a middle desktop application? in case it is possible, explanation of the methodology is greatly appreciated! thank you!!

There are plenty of Fax to Email systems available, such as YAC. If you use one to send an email to your server with the fax attached, you could then use code on your server to save the attachment to a file. This can be done with Apache and PHP, I can't help you with ASP.NET though. This might give you a head-start though. http://www.jscape.com/articles/retrieving_email_pop3_csharp.html

To expand on stevenmc's answer, this can be done with ASP.NET on an API-accessible internet fax service such as Interfax. There are C# fax samples available on their site for review and download.

Once you've signed up for inbound fax service (free for developers), you hook up to the Web Service endpoint from .NET. The crux of this approach is for your app to query the servers periodically for any new faxes that arrive for you, with method GetList:

objInterfax.GetList(this.txtUser.Text, this.txtPass.Text, interfax.ListType.NewMessages, i, ref InItems);

Any fax sent to your number on their service will appear as a new record in the structure returned by this method. Once a new fax is available, you download it with method GetImageChunk:

objInterfax.GetImageChunk(this.txtUser.Text, this.txtPass.Text, InItems[i].MessageID, false, InItems[i].MessageSize, 0, ref b);