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Authors: Bernard REVILLET, Gérard BOULAY, Jean-Paul DICK, Jérôme CUDELOU

Publication date: May 10, 2001

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1.1.1 Definition

In 1979, the CCITT (Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique) defined facsimile as "a system of telegraphy which ensures the transmission of still images (photographic or other) by means of a scanning process". The reproduction may comprise only two significant states, black and white, or a continuous range of grays, or a continuous range of colors.

Faxes have two major characteristics:...

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