pschichtel / sipgatevirtualfax

A simple tool that scans documents using twain and sends them as faxes via sipgate.

SipgateVirtualFax

A simple tool that uses TWAIN to scan a document, embeds it into a PDF and sends it as a fax using Sipgate's API. Information in Sipgate's fax functionality: https://basicsupport.sipgate.de/hc/de/articles/115000291945-Faxe-versenden-via-PDF-API-Faxdrucker

What works?

• Single page flatbed AND ADF scanning (using ntwain)
• Converting the resulting image into a PDF (using iTextSharp)
• Pulling available group faxlines from sipgate (via their API)
• Fax status polling
• Fax existing PDF without scanning
• Offering resend upon send failure
• Progress indication in the UI
• Sipgate OAuth2 and access token authentication

What's still missing?

• multi page scanning using ADF
• multi page scanning using manual swap with UI guidance
• Contact book integration

sipgatevirtualfax's Issues

Status Polling

See: https://github.com/sipgate-io/sipgateio-sendfax-java/blob/master/src/main/java/sipgateio/sendfax/SendFax.java#L129

Correctly filter destination numbers for sipgate

Apparently sipgate rejects destination numbers that contain spaces and other separators.

Status indicator while scanning and sending

Currently the UI blocks hard while scanning, converting to PDF and sending the fax (see #1).

A progress bar should show what's currently being done and that it actually does something.

Resend on failure

Requires #1

If the fax fails to transmit, we should ask the user to resend.