Patent ID: 8290160

Claim:
A method for providing a secured facsimile transmission of a document, comprising the steps of: a. providing an option between encrypting and not encrypting a first page of said document; b. generating at least one image of said document; c. reading the pixels of said at least one image in a series of blocks of a predetermined size; d. converting said series of pixel blocks into an ASCII character string based on an established conversion table; e. encrypting said ASCII character string with an established encryption algorithm to create an encrypted character string; f. placing a marker string and an unencrypted header before the beginning of said encrypted character string, the marker string being placed between said unencrypted header and said encrypted character string; g. compressing said encrypted character string to create a scrambled image; h. providing an option between a standard encryption mode and an optimized encryption mode to encrypt the portion of said document after said first page of said document if the option of not encrypting said first page of said document is selected or to encrypt the entirety of said document if the option of encrypting said first page of said document is selected, wherein in the standard encryption mode one image is generated from the portion of said document after said first page of said document or from the entirety of said document, and in the optimized encryption mode a series of small images are generated line by line from the portion of said document after said first page of said document or from the entirety of said document and each of said series of small images is converted into a short character string where a character string of an image of a blank line with only white pixels is not encrypted before compression; i. transmitting, by a transmitting device, said scrambled image according to an established facsimile transmission standard; and j. receiving said scrambled image in a receiving device according to an established facsimile transmission standard, wherein said step of receiving said scrambled image further comprises the steps of: 1. saving said scrambled image in a special memory in said receiving device waiting for its designated recipient of said document; 2. said receiving device expanding said scrambled image saved in said special memory into a character string stored in said receiving device; 3. said receiving device decrypting said character string stored in said receiving device into a decrypted character string stored in said receiving device; 4. said receiving device converting said decrypted character string stored in said receiving device back into a restored image of said document stored in said receiving device; and 5. said receiving device printing said document in decrypted form from said restored image of said document.