How to Receive Fax on Gmail

If you want to receive fax in Gmail, the only option you have is using an email fax service.  Sure, there are free fax sites on the Web, but all of them only help you to send faxes not receive them.

An email fax service gives you the tool you need to receive digital faxes: a virtual fax number.  That’s right, every new account with a Gmail fax service is assigned its own virtual fax number. This number is in charge of “grabbing” incoming fax images to redirect them to powerful fax servers, where they are transformed into digital files.

On your end, you won’t notice any difference.  Just hand out your virtual fax number to all your business contacts and faxes will arrive automatically in your inbox, as an attachment.

The file that arrives your inbox is a PDF file so you can easily read it through a browser, or download it to view it in a program such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 100% free.

If you would like a detailed guide here is one that will teach you exactly to receive fax over Gmail.