Converting efax .efx files

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Feb 15 20:47:28 UTC 2010


John Poelstra wrote:
> Has anyone figured out a way to convert the files created by the free 
> faxing services from efax.com (efx format) to another format like PDF or 
> tiff?
> 
> I'm also trying to run the Windows program provided by efax under wine 
> on Fedora 12 (i686), but the windows installer doesn't finish.
> 
Since I don't run that I can only ask, what is the file format (output of the 
file command)? If they are jbig (standard fax format) you can use the jbig 
toolkit or the jbig parts of the netpbm package.

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