摘要 |
A method of processing postal items in which an image is formed of each item, the image including address information ( 1 ), and on the basis of the image of the item and a reference address base ( 6 ), OCR is used to perform automatic recognition of the destination address information ( 8, 9 ), is characterized in that during automatic recognition of destination address information, use is made ( 10 ) of a database ( 11 ) in which there are organized ordered lists of delivery points for delivery rounds in such a manner as to take account of an estimated extra cost for destination error associated with processing the item should the item be delivered to an erroneous delivery point.
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