Shinsai Faxocr is a web application that is desinged to gather data from every fax users. It recognizes letters in fax images through another ocr driver engine, sheet-reader, also hosted on the Google code.

This project needs the Ruby on Rails environment. We are not providing tar balls. To set up the faxocr system, please execute the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/faxocr/faxocr.git faxocr
cd faxocr
gem update --system 1.5.3
gem install rails -y -v 2.3.5
cd faxocr
vi config/database.yam
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
script/server

We are providing an AMI(Amazon Machine Image) for faxocr (though the version of the system in this image is obsolete). You can install the system in 3 minuets. You should search "faxocr" in AMIs of Tokyo Region on the AWS Management Console and lunch it. please use something like the following a user data in the Request Instance Wizard.

# For the pop3 server
POP3HOST=pop3.live.com
POP3PORT=995
POP3USER=xxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com
POP3PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxxx
POP3SSL=true
# For the smtp server
SMTPHOST=smtp.live.com
SMTPPORT=25
SMTPAUTH=true
SMTPUSER=xxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com
SMTPPASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxxx
SMTPSSL=true
SMTPFROM=xxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com
# For the fax service
FAXTODOMAIN=ml.faximo.jp
FAXFROMADDR=xxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com
FAXUSER=
FAXPASS=

see http://sites.google.com/site/faxocr2010/install-documents/aws.