[quote=FlyerInHi]You can scan to PDF. Tile companies and law firms do that. It’s cheaper to buy a new scanner than to pay the monthly fees. We need to get on with the world.
BTW businesses can get digital lines that look like POTS. POTS is so anachronistic.[/quote]Um, maybe very large law firms have those $5-35K standalone copy machines which can automatically scan reams at a time but the medium-sized or small firm does not. Fax service is a legal method of service between law firms if they both agree to it in writing early on in the case. Medical and dental offices and all kinds of gubment agencies still use fax all day every day. Yes, even the IRS. In some depts of the IRS, fax or snail mail is the only way to send them anything.
I personally scan items to pdf for e-mail if that is an accepted way of receipt of the party I’m sending it to. But I often have to reduce the size of each pdf prior to e-mailing in order to have the document “fit” into the “free” e-mail services I use online. This could be a 2-5 step process (versus just faxing it) and a lot of businesses (large and small) don’t have a person to scan each document individually (or in a small batch) on garden variety scanners purchased at Office Depot. Then you need conversion and compression software ($100 and up) and someone who understands how to use it. Scanning and e-mailing can take half a day and can be a PITA. Especially if you have a lot of documents or a very large document to send which is on a commercial or government form and was never originated from MS Office software or other WP software. Faxing is easier and faster for the majority of document sending …. especially in bulk.
It’s just not practical in real life with every agency and business one has to deal with to scan and e-mail everything without access to a sophisticated standalone commercial copier/scanner.
