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Does faxing work with ZTE Wireless home phone adapters?

Intro Many wireless carriers in the United States and Canada (AT&T, Consumer Cellular, Telus, Fido, Rogers, Koodo etc.)  are now offering a wireless home phone service that can connect your existing home telephone to the carrier’s cellular network. The wireless home phone service is sold as an alternative to the traditional landline and your current land-line […]

Formatting Microsoft Word mail merge fields using switches

Microsoft Word has a powerful feature that can alter how the text appears in your finished merged document, for example, if you have source data (a spreadsheet with a list of names and fax numbers in Excel) that contains names in mixed upper and lower case, it may look unprofessional to include lower case letters […]

Does FaxTalk include an OCR feature? How can I convert my fax page to editable text?

FaxTalk does not include a built in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature to convert existing faxes to text readable format.    If you have a compatible Microsoft Office product, you can use the included Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) option to perform an OCR on any TIFF image.  FaxTalk can export or save received faxes […]

How to setup FaxTalk to use Distinctive Ring (Alternate Number Ringing) services

Distinctive Ring is a land-line service provided by your phone company. It allows you to add a second or third phone number to an existing telephone line. This is done without having to physically install wiring to your home or office. The second or third phone number is shared with your primary telephone line. Your […]

How to store and access your received faxes and messages on Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive

FaxTalk allows you to save a secondary copy of your incoming faxes and messages to a folder of your choice. With a Microsoft Windows compatible Cloud Storage client software such as DropBox, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive you can store a copy your faxes and messages and have them accessible on all your computers, mobile […]

Adding a PBK phonebook file to FaxTalk

The FaxTalk software stores the data files (phonebooks, cover pages etc.) used by the program in a set of folders located in a central location on the drive based on recommended guidelines from Microsoft. Usually, this is the drive where the Windows operating system is installed. The default phonebook folder location is different depending on which […]

Is a Software Development Kit (SDK) available in FaxTalk?

All FaxTalk software includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) to enable programmatic access to certain operations in the FaxTalk software. The FaxTalk SDK consists of COM objects, header files, sample code, and documentation. It is designed to help you create programs. These programs can provide automated access to FaxTalk functionality. Using the FaxTalk SDK, you […]