Fax handling system and method

A method for storing into a repository contents of an electronic transmission that includes multiple pages comprising one or more electronic documents, wherein the pages contain barcode data that defines information relating to the one or more electronic documents, comprising the steps of:

• a. providing an electronic data repository;
• b. receiving the electronic transmission from a party remote from the repository;
• c. identifying barcode data contained within the electronic transmission;
• d. analyzing the barcode data identified at step (c) and identifying any of a predetermined set of errors based on the barcode data identified at step (c);
• e. identifying, from a predetermined set of corrective actions, one or more predetermined corrective actions corresponding to an error identified at step (d);
• and
• f. communicating the one or more predetermined corrective actions to the remote party,
• wherein the barcode data contained in the pages of the electronic transmission include a first barcode that defines information relating to second barcodes that follow the first barcode in the electronic transmission, wherein the second barcodes define information that relates the second barcodes to each other, and wherein step (d) comprises
• reading the first barcode and identifying the information defined by the first barcode that relates to the second barcodes,
• reading the second barcodes,
• confirming the second barcodes conform to the information defined by the first barcode, and
• confirming the second barcodes conform to the information defined by the second barcodes that relate the second barcodes to each other.

A system for storing into a repository contents of an electronic transmission that includes multiple pages and one or more electronic documents, wherein the repository has a predetermined organizational structure and wherein the pages contain barcode data that defines information relating to the storage of one or more electronic documents within the organizational structure, comprising:

• a computer with a non-transitory computer-readable medium having an electronic data repository;
• and
• a computer with a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program configured to
• receive the electronic transmission from a party remote from the repository,
• identify barcode data contained within the electronic transmission,
• analyze the identified barcode data and identifying any of a predetermined set of errors based on the identified barcode data, and for each identified error,
• if the identified error is of a first type, notify the remote party or an administrator associated with the electronic data repository of the identified error,
• if the identified error is of a second type, notify the remote party or the administrator of the error, identify one or more predetermined corrective actions that correspond to the identified error and that are selectable by the remote party or the administrator, and
• receive instructions from the remote party or administrator to effect a selected said one or more predetermined corrective actions.