# Receiving faxes and interacting with them in ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receiving-faxes-and-interacting-with-them-in-ruby/98382>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 14, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receiving-faxes-and-interacting-with-them-in-ruby/98382 "2006-07-14T10:33:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receiving-faxes-and-interacting-with-them-in-ruby/98382/1 "2006-07-14T10:33:22Z")

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I wasn’t sure if anyone here knew how to interact with a fax service  
via ruby, but if you have any insight on this I would greatly  
appreciate it.

Basically what I’m looking to do is…when a fax is sent to a fax  
number, take that fax and save it as 2045467788.pdf or any file type.  
The file type is irrelevant, but as long as the fax is stored as the  
phone number it was sent from I can do things with it. I can  
associate that phone number with an account in the database and then  
link it to that account.

Does anyone know how to do this or can anyone point me in the right  
direction?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Thank You,  
Ben J.  
E: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid