Title :
Integration of hand-written address interpretation technology into the United States Postal Service Remote Computer Reader system
Author :
Srihari, Sargur N. ; Kuebert, Edward J.
Author_Institution :
CEDAR, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Abstract :
Hand-written address interpretation (HWAI) technology has been recently incorporated into the processing of letter mail by the US Postal Service. The Remote Bar Coding System, which is an image management system for assigning bar codes to mail that has not been fully processed by postal OCR equipment, has been retrofitted with a Remote Computer Reader (RCR), into which the HWAI technology is integrated. A description of the HWAI technology, including its algorithms for the control structure, recognizers and databases, is provided. Its performance on more than a million hand-written mail-pieces in a field deployment of the integrated RCR-HWAI system is indicated. Future enhancements for a nationwide deployment of the system are indicated
Keywords :
bar codes; character recognition equipment; handwriting recognition; mark scanning equipment; optical character recognition; postal services; software performance evaluation; Remote Bar Coding System; Remote Computer Reader system; United States Postal Service; bar code assignment; control structure algorithms; database algorithms; handwritten address interpretation technology; image management system; integrated RCR-HWAI system; letter mail processing; nationwide deployment; performance; postal OCR equipment; recognizer algorithms; Automatic frequency control; Automation; Image coding; Image databases; Large-scale systems; Optical character recognition software; Postal services; Road transportation; Spraying; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ulm
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7898-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1997.620640
