Patent ID: 9742934
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A machine-implemented method for providing a hosted internet fax service, comprising: processing a raw fax document, received for a user of the internet fax service, using digital character recognition to extract text therefrom; analyzing the raw fax document to determine a probability of the raw fax document having a native format by comparing the raw fax document with a plurality of known or verified file formats stored in a repository; selecting a native file format from which the raw fax document likely originated based on the comparison, the selected native file format being one of a) word processor format, b) spreadsheet format, or c) slide presentation format; producing a restored document that is in the selected native file format by incorporating essentially all extracted text of the raw fax document; and making the restored document available to the user over an internet.