Patent ID: 8035834

Claim:
A method for a computer system for transmitting a facsimile to an electronic destination address, comprises: receiving the facsimile comprising an instruction page and a document, wherein the instruction page includes an optical representation of the electronic destination address and an optical representation of a user selection of one or more options, and wherein the document is encoded in a first transmission format; determining the electronic destination address from the optical representation of the electronic destination address, wherein the electronic destination address need not be known to the computer system before receiving the facsimile; determining the one or more selected options in response to the optical representation of the user selection of one or more options; determining a modified document in response to the document and in response to the one or more selected options; encoding the modified representation of the document into a second transmission format; determining additional service provider data in response to the facsimile; and transmitting the additional service provider data and the modified representation of the document encoded in the second transmission format to the electronic destination address.