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How to Send Faxes for Free Online
With the advent of e-mail and file attachments, faxes have slowly disappeared. But, every so often, you'll come across a government agency, or employer, that requires you to actually fax a document. Sure, you could buy a fax machine for those rare occasions, or head to your local Kinko's or Staples, but those are expensive propositions.
Fortunately, there are several services online that allow you to fax documents and PDFs for cheap, or for free. Both faxZERO and eFax offer straight-up faxing services without bells and whistles. faxZERO will even send faxes for free, just as long as they're under three pages, and just as long as you don't mind an ad on the coversheet, and just as long as you don't want to send more than two in a day (You really do get what you pay for, don't you?).
There are also services like Qipit and ScanR, both of which take cell phone photos of handwritten notes, white boards or documents and turn them into PDFs, which can then be e-mailed, faxed, or shared online. Qipit is completely free, although it does lack one killer feature available in ScanR: optical character recognition (OCR). This feature turns a document's text into searchable data, and can even pull contact information off of a business card. But now we're getting off-topic.
If you only need to send occasional faxes you may want to look into one of these services, all of which cost significantly less than Kinko's and take up a lot less room than a fax machine. [From: MakeUseOf.com, via DownloadSquad]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ocere said 5:24PM on 5-10-2009
This would've been handy a week ago! I had to spend my last 1000 ₩ to fax some paperwork!
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Casey Jones said 12:38AM on 5-11-2009
You can also send out any document to get signed, by fax, for free at www.echosign.com.
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RFRStormer said 5:44AM on 5-20-2009
I was interested in the story, read over it and checked out the sites offered up in the story about faxing. I will agree that freefax is indeed a good solution to needing to fax items to someone. But eFax with its monthly charge and 10.00 setup fee, is only worth while if you must fax often. And if you need to fax often, it is just better to go purchase a fax machine than pay 14 dollars a month and a 10.00 fee. Heck, the fax machine pays for itself the first month.. Yes on FreeFax.. Nay on eFax.
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James said 6:42PM on 7-12-2009
http://www.GotFreeFax.com is another website that lets user send free fax online to the US and Canada. User can either upload a PDF/Word file or enter text to fax. Plus, it does not add Ads to the fax, which makes it more suitable for faxing formal documents.
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mazyoyo said 3:27AM on 10-07-2009
is there are any other website that can send fax for free? worldwide?
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