Opportunity a): Further to as published or enshrined else where 
              and as referred in the document below.

              a non-flatbed scanner ... can be embedded in a laptop
              or other portable carryable computers ...ability to send fax
              as also embedded scanner.

              viz. instead of a motor operable roller ...or drum ...

                   ability to appropriately  fasten or tighten the guage or width
                   of the slot into which a paper (ideally A4) is to be inserted 
                   ....a human hand operable by the way of pull / push of the paper
                   to be scanner ...that automatically rolls the drum.

                   given the similarity or commonality of between cam and a few
                   other softwares ...sharable libraries of code ...thus a light
                   weight embedded scanner and fax into a laptop or desktop

                   Alternatively further to as envisaged in the document 

                   "opportunity_wireless_broadband_services.txt" ...given the context of
                   digital printers and printable letter heads ....table-pc or stylus or pen
                   operable writable scratch or screens bundled with handwriting recognition
                   softwares ...ability to transmit and recieve fax ....potentially save printed
                   and attested true copy for practical or paper based record.

                                 

Opportunity b): further to as envisaged in the documents projects.pdf, 
                opportunity_digital_text_scanners_computing_contexts_software.txt,
                opportunity_barcode_generation_ascii_viceversa.txt,
                opportunity_exploit_DNSwithNAT.txt,
                opportunity_datastorage_mediums_data_access_views.txt.
                

                Faxing (while the distinctions offered on the electronic mediums and digital exchanges and
                transmissions are blurred) ...as a viable , distinct solution

                ...with the advent of quality scanners ...quality of the fax recieved has improved
                to the true copy quality ...zerox or scanned copy ...given that the content transfer or
                data exchange in faxing solutions can potentially adhere to MIME (computing parlance)
                ....potentially offering the scope to dynamic storage into computing environments and
                digital storage mediums (databases of filesystems) ...by using standard notations (fonts,
                text ...etc)

                fax as a transmission offers a acknowledgement reciept from the destination fax-machine-hosting
                solutions ...a interface or means to customize the acknowledgement ...providing scope for kind of
                a valid reciept or authentic proof ....thus deriving can be used as valid means in tax assesment
                filings, financial statement filings, account opening or registration services , electronic voting
                services inlieu of mailing postal ballot ...public listed firms etc/

                ...since the signature or thumb impression or logo or trade-mark are also transmitted ...and
                the original copies can potentially be retained for chronical proof along with the
                fax-acknowledgement-reciepts...containing unique-id or transaction-no or numbers that can 
                be tracked in the host computing solutions for tracking the fax-copy,parsed-data(ideal
                viability being map or translate the data into a  XML-DTD confirming ) in the database,
                filesystems [...ideal proposition being 'netapp' or nas or (jbods under a volume managers) based 
                file-servers as used in large email  server-hosting solutions ...where in indexing or
                organization of data for each user is done  by having a virtual lun(storage space allocated),

                [
                ...by having the data in potentially parsable
                format xml-dtd/.mht ...ability to integrated into a RDBMS ...a readily integratable option into
                database ...given the above ...mode or method ...offers distinct advantage as to index or organization
                of the data]....since a custom software is used for preparing a  tax assesment
                filings, financial statement filings, account opening or registration services , electronic voting
                services ...ability or capability to integrate into the database all the more ideal ...the deal or
                chunk of the magic being the parser and the format mime/.mht/xml-dtd ...a integrated parser in the
                database 

                ...refer to the documents opportunity_[O]RDBMS_derived_data_types_handlers.txt,
                                          opportunity_datastorage_mediums_data_access_views.txt
                on this uri or url

                given that a custom-software is used ...a customized properitary MIME-format-[fax] ...translating
                in to say a customized file format ...kind of image-type to be supported both client-side(fax machine)
                and server-side, can be generated say by delimit all mappable fields and their values into a 
                database with unique-delimters such that text/bit-stream parsers like awk/perl/sed would be able
                to handle the content ...and arrive at a readily mappable tabular/populatable collection or a hash structure,
                one may be able to derive a ideal protocol or process to be implemented for this by understanding how the supported
                fonts by a Operating sytem or supported file formats in a Operating system are handled.

                Based on the convinience and the distribution of processing powers on the server side and client
                side ...usage of a custom built MIME-type to that a image-format may suffice.

                ]
                
                offering viable marketable solutions around the concept.

            
Note: The above problem statement having been encountered in various scenarios
      and detailed in various 'Proof of concepts' as mentioned in 
      'http://uk.geocities.com/ravivenkatus/projects.pdf' ....apply appropriate
      'use-case' modeling, rationalize and arrive at a workable and feasible 
       solution both commercially and techinically viable.


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