Joseph A Zebrowski

6980331, Dec 27, 2005

Dec 2, 1999

09/452198

Philip D. Mooney - North Wales PA, US
Richard M. Ubowski - Harleysville PA, US
Joseph A. Zebrowski - Norristown PA, US

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04N001/00

358400, 358 328, 358474, 37910008

Embedded writing or typing in a fax document or white board presentation are detected in a predetermined region of the document, recognized and converted into textual data corresponding to the fax telephone number or e-mail of the recipient of the document. The fax telephone number is automatically dialed without requiring the user to input the telephone number or even select a speed dial telephone number, although the use of confirmation of the scanned and textually converted fax telephone number or e-mail is within the principles of the present invention. In a first embodiment, the present invention adds the capability to a fax machine to scan the first page of the outgoing fax (e. g. , the cover page) for detection and recognition (e. g. , optical character recognition (OCR)) of the recipient's fax number and automatically dials it if found. Moreover, the sender's identification (e. g.