Prime Vision’s hand printed address reader for New Caledonia Post
Prime Vision delivered engineering support and software licensing for the Mail Automation Project of New Caledonia Post (OPT). The project migrated OPT from manual mail processing to automation of letters.
The main assignment was the construction of a sortation platform that could serve as the foundation of OPT’s automation initiatives. The project comprised both machine and hand print address recognition performance in a format that can easily be managed by the post. Prime Vision was selected as a subcontractor for the hand printed address reader, after it appeared that this job was more difficult than initially anticipated.
Although the available developing time was limited and the recognition task challenging, Prime Vision managed to deliver an address reader on time and exactly to the specifications given. Unlike the first selected OCR vendor, the Prime Vision engineers managed to deal successfully with the restricted latency time, the great variety in address layouts and the unclear writing styles in New Caledonian addresses. The reader component makes use of the open CEN interface and applies state-of-the-art technology in order to read domestic addresses up to the street and house number level as well as foreign destinations.