From 838c04d5b271ad43f6d675b72d1c09d305a3ed3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bensynapse <118375461+bensynapse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:53:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Curate the fax topic

A short page for the fax topic: what fax is, the T.30 and T.38 protocols, and why developers still build for it.
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+---
+aliases: fax-api, faxing, fax-server, efax
+display_name: Fax
+related: telephony, voip, sip, modem, ocr
+short_description: Fax sends a scanned page over a phone line or an IP network so the other end can print or store it.
+topic: fax
+wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
+---
+Fax carries a scanned document between two machines over a telephone call, following the ITU-T T.30 protocol, or over an IP network with T.38. Banks, clinics, courts, and insurers still accept faxes, so developers keep writing fax servers, gateways, SDKs, and APIs that turn a PDF into pages, dial the number, and record whether every page arrived.