What is Noojee Fax (a.k.a AsterFax)?

Coming Soon: Noojee Fax 3.0 with T.38 support
(fax over IP)
With an expected release date of December 2008 Noojee Fax 3.0 will provide support for Asterisk 1.6 and T.38. Purchasers of Noojee Fax 2.x between 1st of November 2008 and the release date will be eligible for a free upgrade.

Overview
Noojee Fax is a fax-to-email/email-to-fax gateway designed for the Asterisk PBX. Noojee Fax lets your staff send and receive faxes using a standard email client such as MS-Outlook or Thunderbird.

With Noojee Fax you don't need a dedicated fax line as Noojee Fax can share any voice lines attached to your Asterisk PBX. You can also forget about loading fax machines with paper and ink cartridges and save a few trees on the way :)

Receiving Faxes
Incoming faxes are automatically emailed to a selected email account based on the incoming fax number (DID). This allows all of your staff to have a private fax number.

Sending Faxes
Staff simply compose an email using any email client (e.g. MS-Outlook, Thunderbird), attached any required documents, enter the phone number as the 'To' Address and click 'Send'. A delivery receipt is emailed back to the sender once the transmission has completed.

Noojee Fax Version 2.0 has been released.

Formerly know as AsterFax from the 21st of May 2008 AsterFax will be known as 'Noojee Fax'.

The name change is timed to conicide with a change of company name. From the 21st of May 2008 Asterisk IT will be know as 'Noojee Telephony Solutions'. Interested in becoming a Noojee Fax Reseller?
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Noojee Fax is available in both Commercial and Open Source versions.

The following table identifies the key differences:

Feature Commercial Open Source

Reliable Fax Transmission on Asterisk Compatible Hardware Yes No

Provides Private Fax numbers for all staff Yes Yes

Send faxes from any email client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook) Yes Yes

Automatic archival of all faxes sent/received Yes Yes

Supports Fax Preview Yes Yes

Bitrock Installer Yes No

Commercial Support Yes No

Community Support Yes Yes

14.4K transmission speed Yes No

Optional SOAP API Yes No

Optional Database router Yes No

MS Office convertors Yes Yes

PDF Convertors Yes Yes

Limited to 1 Fax channel No Yes

Requires specialised Fax hardware (for reliable transmission) No Yes

Integration with Noojee Vision
Yes
No

Automated Print incoming faxes Yes No

Route faxes to Printer based on DID Yes No

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Asterisk is an Open Source PABX integrating PSTN telephone lines and VOIP into a single solution, providing all of the functionality of a high end PBX. Noojee Fax builds on the services delivered by Asterisk and provides an email based Fax Gateway that will advance any company’s communication capabilities.

With Noojee Fax and Asterisk, you can send and receive faxes using your standard email client without having to install any software on your desktop. Noojee Fax simply translates a normal email message into a fax message for sending faxes and back the other way when receiving faxes. To send a fax you simply enter the destination phone number in the 'To' address, compose your email message and click the ‘Send’ button. It’s that easy.

Features & Benefits:

Faxing is an essential form of business communication for every company. By combining Noojee Fax and Asterisk sending and receiving faxes is easy.

Benefits:
- No additional hardware require as Noojee Fax utilizes the telephony card already in your Asterisk PBX
- Create private fax numbers for all staff without needing additional lines. Route faxes directly to a staff members emails inbox.

- Combined with Noojee Fax, Asterisk creates a universal inbox with email, voice and fax messages all being delivered to a users existing email client.

- Reduced deployment costs as no client install required

- Reduced deployment costs as no specialized hardware required.

- Reduced life cycle costs as updates only need to be applied to the server.

- Reduced printing cost as eliminates need to print a document in order to fax it

- Eliminate the costs associated with having a dedicated fax line

- Reduced labour costs as staff will no longer have to wait for a fax to go through successfully

- Corporate monitoring of all fax transmissions via a central archive

- Staff can send and receive faxes from home just by connecting to the corporate mail server

- Eliminate staff having to load the fax machine with paper and ink cartridges.

- Send/Receive fax whilst on the go using your mobile phones email client

Features:
- Use your existing email client to send and receive faxes
- Send MS-Word documents as a fax and a large variety of other file types
- Provide a private fax line for every staff member and have faxes delivered directly to their email inbox
- Send a fax to multiple recipients just be adding additional 'To' addresses.
- Automatic delivery receipts delivered to your email inbox
- Received faxes can be delivered as either a tiff or pdf attachment or an inline tiff.
- Archives inbound and outbound faxes in a central location
- Simple to install
- Built as an extension to Asterisk
- Support all Asterisk compatible hardware (including Digium)
- Also able to work with most Fax modems directly under Linux without needing Asterisk
- Send multiple attachments in one single fax transmission.
- Email body can be used as a coversheet to attachments.

- Supports a large number of file formats including: Tiff, Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer and others.

- Can be integrated into other business applications via SMTP or SOAP interface.
- Preview faxes before they are sent.

Limitations:

At this stage faxing over VoIP channels (such as SIP and IAX) is not supported. We have had reports that this can be made to work but our testing shows that it is at best challenging to make this reliable. Support for T.38 (fax over IP) is available under Call Weaver and we are working with developers to introduced T.38 support under Asterisk

Coming December 2008: Noojee Fax 3.0 with T.38 support

Licensing:
Noojee Fax is available under a dual license model. We offer Noojee Fax completely free under a modified version of the GPL to users (commercial or otherwise) with a single fax line and up to 5 direct-in-dials. For users with a greater need you can purchase a commercial license for a reasonable price (see below).

The commercial fax driver is only available with the commercial version of Noojee Fax.

Download:
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Purchase:
For organisations with additional fax lines, you must purchase a commercial license. (See Purchase Page). Note: Noojee Fax pricing is per fax line, not per user. You can add as many users as you need.