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Prime Vision signs contract with Itella
Prime Vision, the postal integrator and OCR specialist, is delighted to confirm that Itella has awarded the company a four-year support contract for each of its five sorting centres throughout Finland. In line with the high productivity that Itella has achieved through its investment in automation and OCR, this 24-hour support contract is geared to maximising uptime.
The contract covers all servers, cameras and dimensioning systems and includes a high degree of preventative maintenance. Prime Vision LiveLink provides remote system diagnosis and works in tandem with the hotline direct to Prime Vision support specialists.
Itella has consistently led the field in parcel automation, a policy that has optimised its operation and underpinned its productivity. This postal organisation recognised early the value of high performance OCR and chose ParcelVision as the software platform for its phased investment in automation. In the future Itella is considering centralised video coding for redundancy purposes, an important facility in a country where the weather can easily disrupt operations.
Postal organisations naturally seek automation products that outperform others.But in today’s market superior features and benefits aren’t sufficient in themselves to ensure best return on investment.Increasingly the quality of post-installation service and support is becoming a crucial factor.
Automation can substantially boost the cost-efficiency of any operation but if downtime isn’t minimised then this advantage can be nullified. Prime Vision OCR operates at the heart of critically important postal sorting systems throughout the world.Its systems are built to be robust and fault-tolerant to ensure the best return on the automation investment.However the company has also developed an expert parallel support mechanism to guarantee that any problems will be handled swiftly and efficiently.
Prime Vision actively asks for customer feedback on all its products, including service and has recently analysed statistics from its annual customer satisfaction questionnaire.Customers were asked to rate satisfaction in service response time on a scale of 1 – 5 and for this Prime Vision scored an average of 3.83.Satisfaction in the quality of reports issued by the company in response to a service problem was rated at 3.68 and overall satisfaction in service level came in at a creditable 4.08.
“The company is very pleased with the results,” commented Prime Vision’s Mark Ryder. “We only received a few suggestions for improvement and most of our customers confirmed that we do everything they expect, and more.Exceeding expectations is our aim and there is always room for improvement; therefore we will be striving for even better figures other the coming year.”
The main challenges for such a system are the separation of the subtitle text from the complex background and discriminating subtitle text from other overlay text.
The first results are promising and show that our technology can successfully be used for video OCR.
When Prime Vision was commissioned to provide Ciblex Benelux with an OCR system to capture address data automatically, a read rate of 95% was the goal.What the company achieved however substantially exceeded that objective.On an average production run the Prime Vision OCR is now providing this leading parcel carrier with a read rate of more than 98%.
Ciblex Benelux has become the preferred carrier in the optical and medical sector in recent years.Indeed its success in this field has prompted the company to re-locate to larger premises in Zaventum near Brussels.It has also invested in a new Vanderlande parcel handling system central to which is a camera complete with Prime Vision OCR.And a key requirement was to get the system fully operational in a very short time frame.
The resultant ParcelVision label identification tool is responsible for reading the machine-printed address data on pre-defined label formats.Currently there are fifty format variants but the system allows more to be easily added. In addition to country and postal codes, the system is designed to recognise several different product codes such as those relating to delivery time.
The system has been operational since January 2010 and is able to handle up to 4,000 parcels per hour.“Ciblex Benelux was impressed by the ease of system integration and is very satisfied with the overall project outcome,” Project Manager Rob Pieterse concludes. “Their Managing Director told us to make sure the dump shoot is empty.And that’s exactly what we’ve done!”
Prime Vision is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Ryder to the post of Head of Marketing & Communications with effect from April 5th 2010. Mark has been with Prime Vision since 2006 and in his most recent role was responsible for sales in the United States, United Kingdom and Scandinavian markets.
Eddy Thans, CEO Prime Vision comments that "the company continues to enjoy substantial growth even in today’s demanding market and now is the time to expand our marketing function to position and communicate those strengths to our focus markets. This appointment is in line with our strategy to grow the team in a planned, sustained manner to meet the needs of our clients and shareholders and deliver the next growth phase of the company."
Mark, who holds a Diploma in Marketing and is a member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing has eighteen years' experience in the automation and identification market. Mark adds, "I'm very much looking forward to this exciting opportunity; marketing is an art and a science and my aim is to bring both to the role. Prime Vision is developing fast in the field of recognition technologies and the whole integration platform for postal and logistics organisations; we are at an exciting confluence of capability and market demand."
Listen Up!: New Developments in Recognition Technologies at Prime Vision
Prime Vision, the leading recognition and integration specialist for the postal automation market, today announces a development program to expand its recognition technologies to include voice and speaker recognition for the benefit of its substantial user base around the world.
Prime Vision will be working together with its TNO sister company, Dutchear, to develop voice recognition as an enhancement to those automation tasks that will always require some man/machine interface.
Did you know that Prime Vision invests over 20% of turnover in research and development initiatives and collaborates amongst a team of 5,000 of the leading scientists in Europe?Being part of the TNO organisation has always been a great strength and differentiator for Prime Vision in the market.TNO is an independent research organisation whose mission is to "apply scientific knowledge with the aim of strengthening the innovative power of industry and government" and is a 40% shareholder of Prime Vision.
"This academic and research background drives everything we do at Prime Vision" says Michiel De Rijcke, Head of R&D, "We are always looking to combine technology in a smart way that delivers real benefits and performance enhancements for our clients".Hans Jongebloed, Head of R&D at Dutchear, is looking forward to the development potential and further collaboration with Prime Vision, "At Dutchear we have developed a very high competence and performance level in speech technology which can be applied in many different applications; we would like to apply our technology to the postal and logistics market in which PrimeVision is a very strong player."
Richard Hagen, Director of Sales adds "We see some exciting opportunities resulting from these new developments.Prime Vision has always been successful in integrating the best that technology offers into modular, high-performance solutions for the postal market."
For the project 'NRS web' we are creating web-services for TNT Netherlands. These components will be used to process services that are now covered by the Dutch Post Offices. Some examples of web-services are: vehicle registration, fish pass, gift cards, and concert tickets. Read more.
Creating these web-services is a new chapter in the Prime Vision history and heralds the capability to deliver many more value-added solutions for our clients.
The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) has a twin role, that of service provider and also of morale booster.As a result it has always been keen to embrace the latest technology to optimise its function in support of forces serving abroad.Prime Vision is therefore delighted to be playing its part, particularly at this time of year when efficient communication between family and friends is especially important.
Working with the main integrator partner, Crisplant, Prime Vision has provided BFPO with a complete turnkey hardware and software solution.This included the installation of two CCD line scan cameras, dimensioning systems, servers and Prime Vision OCR for parcels and mixed mail.The system is complemented by our video coding solution for processing any exceptions.
The parcel traffic includes a high percentage of free-form addresses and special codes representing destinations all over the globe.Typically, more than 50% of the address details are hand-written, the automatic capture of which is a particular strength of Prime Vision’s patented OCR software.
Families of British service personnel are also able to send packages up to 2kg, free of charge.The automation of this unique service was therefore one of the special requirements of this project.
“This was a great project to be involved with,” explained Prime Vision’s CEO Eddy Thans. “BFPO was already very experienced in the use of OCR for letter mail and the requirement was therefore to develop an enhanced system that incorporated parcels too.”
Prime Vision graduate wins Red Dot Design Award with Third Vision System
Last November our trainee Oscar Javier Reyes Acosta won a Red Dot Design Award in a design competition of the Red Dot Institute. Oscar graduated in July 2009 and enjoyed the competition with his graduation project “Third Vision System”. Read more.
In sorting centres manual handling can never be completely avoided, there will always be odd shape parcels that can not be placed in the main conveyor, for this reason human operators are needed. It takes 3 operators and 20 seconds to sort just one parcel and manually keying the postcode and address create the biggest bottle neck for the sorting processes.
The current hand held scanners used by the operators recognize only bar code or they are attached to fixed points by cables.
Prime Vision felt that there was a lot to gain in this area and started the development of the Third Vision System, together with the Industrial Design faculty of the Technical University Delft.
The Third Vision System is an intelligent machine for image processing. It consists of a Third Eye cam and the Third Vision software. The Third Eye cam is a wearable head held camera designed to gather images of the parcels’ surfaces from the operators’ point of view using hand gestures to control the camera. The Third Vision software is developed to recognize framing hand gestures in front of the camera. The system is able to locate and read address labels at parcels during the manual handling of parcels. It is a wireless solution to be used in sorting centres, warehouses and every industrial environment where human labour is needed to sort goods (packages) while gathering the postcode, address and client data written or printed on the parcels’ labels.
The Third Vision system has a lot of advantages.
During the first tests it became clear that the sorting time can be reduced up to 7 seconds! But apart from this the system will make the handling of parcels a more encouraging, motivational and challenging activity with less stress.
PV-ID Advanced Identification techniques from Prime Vision
If you need camera based object detection techniques in your Parcel or Logistics application, then PV-ID comes to rescue.
In PV-ID the state-of-the-art object identification techniques, developed by Prime Vision have been bundled in one complete package. Building on years of expertise, PV-ID enables robust object detection and identification for a large range of applications. With PV-ID the identification of logo’s, sign of payment, labels, or even whole boxes can be handled with an absolute minimum of user interaction.
PV-ID naturally complements ParcelVision 3.0 and OCRlite, where object detection and identification techniques are an essential tool for their excellent OCR-performance.
Many Prime Vision clients are discovering the benefits in establishing a long-term support agreement for their systems.NEXT Retail plc in the UK are one of several leading companies to do just that.
Prime Vision leads the industry with its wide range of support services and was the first to invest in a 24/7 hotline manned by Prime Vision software specialists.Ben Schellingerhout, Prime Vision Support Manager, comments “every system comes complete with a secure support link back to Prime Vision headquarters that enables us to be online with the system within 5 minutes of receiving a call from the client.We are able to offer absolute piece of mind via this service as our specialists can see the status and history of every hardware and software module in the clients system and offer immediate support.”
Mark A. Ryder adds “Prime Vision are pushing the boundaries of performance and reliability with every new product release which presents an interesting paradigm when it comes to support; systems are so reliable that when an issue occurs the clients site engineering or I.T. team may not have had to look at the system for months at a time.This is where Prime Vision can be called upon for immediate specialist assistance”.
Contract clients benefit from a tailored SLA (Service Level Agreement) that guarantees both the response times and escalation procedure between the client and Prime Vision.Contract clients also receive free-of-charge software updates as they are released and routine pro-active system healthchecks and maintenance.
For a tailored support package and valuable multi-year benefits, contact Prime Vision today.
Prime Vision White Paper about parcel & flats automation - ParcelVision saves money from day one
In the October 2009 edition of Postal Technology the White Paper “Parcel & flats automation hits prime time” will be published. The White Paper introduces ParcelVision 3.0 which provides a complete automation platform to process the identification of flats and parcels on automated sorting systems, of course for the lowest price. To download the White Paper please follow this link.
Breakthrough Video-Coding and Identification Techniques: Contract Awards
Hannover, Post-Expo Show 2009, September 29th 2009
Prime Vision is pleased to announce the award of a deployment contract for its web-based video-coding solution in the Netherlands by TNT Post Group. The contract award follows the successful trials during the last Christmas and New Year’s period, TNT Post contracted Prime Vision to build a fully functional version within a very short timeframe. This new functionality creates a secure video coding environment making it possible to encode letters via a standard internet browser at any location with internet connectivity.
Prime Vision CEO Eddy Thans comments “the web-based video-coding extension is a revolutionary development with lots of potential for cost-savings and efficiency improvements. TNT will become amongst the first to benefit from this new platform.”
In another development:
TNT and Prime Vision have signed a contract to develop new fundamental techniques and to apply these in the “recognition-chain” of TNT Post.
There are two main goals: Further enhancment of the read-rates and reduction in the error-rates at TNT Post, plus investments in new, promising techniques.
Mr. De Rijcke, Prime Vision Head of R&D, proudly tells us: “within our team there are always so many research ideas regarding how to improve handwriting recognition. Certainly in the field of handwriting and difficult typescript there are a lot of possibilities (potential) to improve. The state of the current business environment is such that it is a challenge to convince customers to invest, even in light of a great business case. We are happy that our ideas are so good that TNT Post trusts that the new fundamental techniques which are envisaged by Prime Vision, will lead to a further innovation in the recognition-chain of TNT”.
The project will provide an address reader, next to the development of new technical modules. This new address reader will be added as the last recognizer in the chain of TNT. The new recognizer will therefore have the name LCD (Last Coding Device).
Strategically this order will be very interesting for all our clients in the future as it will deliver enhancements to Prime Vision core-technology that are utilised on all our programs.
Prime Vision welcomes a new employee. Marius Bulacu will become a member of the R&D-department.
Marius (35) studied Biophysics in Bucharest and obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen. During that promotion assignment, he developed successful methods for automatic writer identification and verification, one of which actually forms the technological kernel of the Prime Vision Writer Identification system (WIE). Last years he worked as Postdoc Researcher during which he developed systems for document layout analysis and reading text, as well as a search engine for historic handwritten documents in the Cabinet of the Dutch Queen. Marius will be assigned mainly to the “Kennisinvestering program”, where his task will be to develop technological improvements and technological extensions to our pattern recognition techniques and software library.
Crisplant’s Australian air Express installation including Prime Vision Video-Coding wins award
Crisplant systems installed for Australian air Express (AaE) have won major national and state awards within months of becoming fully operational. The state-of-the-art sortation systems were installed by Crisplant into new-build facilities in Melbourne and Sydney as part of AaE’s major ‘Building our Future’ investment programme.
Crisplant contracted Prime Vision to deliver advanced video-coding applications for processing parcels for which no EDI data has been received. The VCS application includes automatic ROI finding, auto rotation and auto zooming. Apart from this an extensive image archive was developed to store images that help improving Quality Control.
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.
TNT Post contracted Prime Vision to design, realize and rollout web services for a new retail system. The web based software is necessary to control specific parts of the User Interface of the system, controlling hardware on the retail system and communication with (different) back office systems.
With the use of web services, TNT can benefit of centralized software on web servers. There is no need to install software on the client systems, cutting the maintenance costs dramatically. Prime Vision is very pleased to participate in the program. On the one hand it confirms our diversification strategy in the Logistics business; on the other hand it perfectly fits into our latest efforts in web technology.
High-performance OCR, centralized video-coding and image archiving in Helsinki and Oulu
Recently the first two sorting centers at one of our major projects in Finland have been handed over to our client Itella. The sorting centers in Helsinki and Oulu have been successfully commissioned, inclusive high-performance OCR, centralized video-coding and image archiving. The centralized video-coding solution especially is an important novelty as the weather conditions in Finland do not always allow the data typists to travel to work. The new video-coding system enables Itella to re-route images from all sorting centers to one centralized datacenter in Helsinki.
With the hand over of these two sorting centers the project is half way. The next months the sorting centers of Tampere and Kuopio will be installed in close cooperation with our partner Siemens.
Courier and Parcel Logistics Asia 2009 Expo and Conference postponed
Due to economic circumstances the Courier and Parcel Logistics Asia 2009 Expo and Conference (19-21 May) has been postponed. Originally, our CEO Eddy Thans would act as guest speaker and moderator at the conference. In his presentation “Saving money through OCR and video coding” he intended to explain the audience in more detail that OCR and video coding solutions are much more than “just” ways to automate mail and parcels.
The new date for the CPL Asia is not yet fixed, but at Post Expo 2009 in Hannover (29 September-1 October 2009) you can enjoy another presentation of Eddy. If you don’t want to wait that long, please contact us directly as we are delighted to tell you more on this subject.
From 17 – 20 May 2009 we will be exhibiting at the National Postal Forum in Washington DC, USA. Come and visit our brand new booth, booth number 580.
Prime Vision Live - Europe - Join us at the 2009 AIDC exhibition in The Netherlands
Our very own Richard Hagen will be a guest speaker at the 2009 AIDC show in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Richard will present some of the latest developments in automated recognition technologies that enable 100% identification even where there are no bar codes.
The show and conference takes place on 10th & 11th March 2009 at the NH Conference Centre Koningshof in Veldhoven. Prime Vision will also be present at Booth 011, so come along to find out more.
For more information on the show, just go to http://www.aidc-beurs.nl/
To reserve a meeting time with Richard and our team just email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call +31 15 219 2090.
Moroccan Post selects bid team including Prime Vision for International Mail Centre
News just in: The Moroccan Post Office has selected a Groupe Bull led consortium for the automation of its International Mail Center in Casablanca. Prime Vision is pleased to announce its role on the project as provider of postal address recognition engines.
The Groupe Bull consortium comprises AddressVision Inc. (AVI), its subsidiary specializing in automated mail solutions used to process more than 50% of all international mail, Prime Vision, and National Presort Inc. (NPI), a major mail sorting machinery manufacturer. More details will be annouced shortly...
Prime Vision at World Mail & Express Americas Conference February 24th & 25th 2009
Prime Vision will be present at the World Mail & Express Americas Conference scheduled for 24-25 February 2009 in Miami, USA. To arrange a meeting at the conference simply call +1 (609) 356 6893 or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Now in its 6th consecutive year, the World Mail & Express Americas returns to the United States after two years in Brazil and Mexico.
The last conference in Puerto Vallarta was the largest yet in the Americas with over 200 of the top mail and express executives from across North, Central & South America. A large European contingent represented over 10 countries from the continent whilst other delegates came from as far as Malaysia, Kenya & Saudi Arabia.
Prime Vision Live! - Join us in Chicago at ProMat 2009
Come and see Prime Vision live in Chicago for ProMat 2009 - Booth 5435
We will be highlighting our high-performance automation and identification solutions, such as OCRlite and ParcelVision.
From January 12 - 15, 2009 the material handling and logistics industry will showcase the latest supply chain solutions at ProMat 2009, the Industry's premier trade show and educational conference.
Prime Vision is pleased to report a very successful Post-Expo show this year in London. In addition to a very busy booth, Prime Vision presented at this years conference and also released a new White Paper highlighting the trends and innovations we see developing in the parcel & flats automation arena.
Prime Vision CEO Eddy Thans was interviewed by a TV crew at our show booth and we are pleased to include an excerpt here for you.
The 12th International Postal Technology Exhibition & Conference, POST-EXPO 2008, will be held at ExCeL London from 30th September thru 2nd October.
The three-day event annually attracts more than 4,000 top-level personnel from approximately 100 countries and is universally recognised as the world's premier event for the postal, mailing and parcel industry.
If you are automating or reorganising operations, you really cannot afford to miss Prime Vision at stand number 1342.
This year is set to be another exciting show for Prime Vision with a real emphasis in the market towards "open" systems for processing letters, flats and parcels (Prime Vision's approach for many years). Prime Visions' research and development machine has also been busy releasing new developments and innovations that will be presented at the show.
We have seen unprecedented interest in “open” and “supplier-independent” automation platforms for the postal industry and are convinced that ParcelVision 2.0 is the only solution on the market that truly delivers these benefits without limitation.
You can reserve a specific meeting time by calling Peggy Kosters at +31 15 219 2090, or email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Eddy Thans, CEO Prime Vision is hosting this years' "Sorting And Moving of Parcels" segment of the Post-Expo Operations Conference. If you really want to get the inside-track on how parcel operations will look in the future, you really cannot afford to miss this conference. It is the crystal ball you’ve been looking for!
Record Breakers! Aussie ParcelVision System Deployed in only three days
Australia, June 2008 - Latest ParcelVision system fully installed and commissioned in less than three days.
There are few places on this planet that are further away from Holland than Australia, yet we have proven once again the ease of installation and integration benefits of our standard parcel recognition platform, ParcelVision, even this far away from our corporate homeland.
Ease of Integration and Installation For integrators and customers alike, the fact that ParcelVision is a stable software platform that has been deployed at more than thirty projects worldwide does ensure consistency and ease of deployment, even though customer's requirements, sorters and host systems vary widely.
In this case our Project Manager was Rob Pieterse. Rob adds, "I would also like to emphasize the role of our professional project management services that ensure a smooth installation and commissioning!" And who could argue with that?!
Coming Soon: New Zealand This multi-centre project will see us deploying more ParcelVision systems in Australia and also our first installation in New Zealand.
About Prime Vision Prime Vision is a leading developer and supplier of automation and recognition solutions primarily for the mail & parcel logistics, financial and security markets. Prime Vision is one of the few OCR companies in the world that develops both machine-print and hand-writing recognition technologies in-house.
Everyday, millions of parcels, letters and forms are processed world-wide by Prime Vision solutions. Our award-winning, patented HYCR™ recognition technology is applied to many-varied client applications resulting in a highly customizable and high-performance recognition solution.
Prime Vision’s parcel and flats automation suite, ParcelVision, has been installed at more than 30 sorting centres spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The premier postal industry conference and exhibition 2008
1st December 2008
The premier postal industry conference and exhibition for 2008 was held at the heart of London at ExCel this year. This was a very successful show for Prime Vision with record attendance at our conference presentation and we all left with the feeling that the whole world visited our booth during the three day exhibition.
Eddy Thans, Prime Vision CEO, was interviewed at the show booth regarding the trends in the market and what differentiates Prime Vision. Why not take a look at the interview, copy below.
Hot on the heels of our "web-enabled" video-coding announcement, Prime Vision is pleased to announce that another module of our award-winning ParcelVision parcel recognition platform has been "web-enabled".
Eddy Thans, Prime Vision CEO, comments that the momentum and continuous development behind the ParcelVision platform is exciting for clients as much as it is for our development team, with enhancements being deployed around the world in rapid succession these past months. Introducing the new “Web-Enabled” Parcel Archive Module The new web-enabled module is our Parcel Archive that provides clients the capability to review parcel images and complete process history for every parcel handled at the sorting centre; a powerful tool for customer services and operations management alike.
Denmark first to go-live ' The first ParcelVision system has already been upgraded for a major client in Denmark and is now in operation. Previously, the Parcel Archive was accessible via dedicated terminals at the sorting centre only. The enhanced web-enabled Parcel Archive allows complete flexibility to securely access the archive utilizing a standard web-browser and the public internet meaning that all parts of the organization can now benefit from this important tracking data, not least of which, customer services.
About Prime Vision Prime Vision is a leading developer and supplier of automation and recognition solutions primarily for the mail & parcel logistics, financial and security markets. Prime Vision is one of the few OCR companies in the world that develops both machine-print and hand-writing recognition technologies in-house. Everyday, millions of parcels, letters and forms are processed world-wide by Prime Vision solutions. Our award-winning, patented HYCR™ recognition technology is applied to many-varied client applications resulting in a highly customizable and high-performance recognition solution. Prime Vision’s parcel and flats automation suite, ParcelVision, has been installed at more than 30 sorting centres spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Prime Vision to release web-enabled versions of it’s award-winning parcel automation solutions
Delft, The Netherlands, May 26th 2008 Prime Vision is pleased to announce the development of a major upgrade to it’s award-winning solutions for mail and parcels automation that will enable systems to be securely operated from any location with broadband internet connectivity.
This development will enable postal and parcel operators to access unlimited processing resources during peak operations and pool available resources on a national and international basis. The bottom-line impact is faster response, minimize manual handling and significantly lower costs by eliminating wasted man-hours.
Incredible Operational Advantages, Flexibility & Scaleability Let’s take one example; Video Coding. Prime Vision’s video-coding solution offers many innovations such as live and offline (batch-processing) modes as well as local coding at the sorting centre and/or a centralized video-coding pool for a region or nationwide network; the only current limitation to the system infrastructure is that dedicated video-coding client software is used on dedicated terminals in dedicated customer facilities.
Compare that the secure “web-enabled” video-coding scenario; potentially unlimited video-coding clients running on standard hardware on a standard internet browser. Video-coders can be offered home-based working contracts and resource effectively becomes unlimited; the fixed investment of running a 80-desk video-coding suite starts to look expensive and limited.
System To Be Deployed Nationwide in The Netherlands The first “web-enabled” project is already underway. The national mail operator for The Netherlands, TNT Post, will start using their new web-enabled system nationwide before the Christmas holiday season 2008. About Prime Vision Prime Vision is a leading developer and supplier of automation and recognition solutions primarily for the mail & parcel logistics, financial and security markets. Prime Vision is one of the few OCR companies in the world that develops both machine-print and hand-writing recognition technologies in-house.
Everyday, millions of parcels, letters and forms are processed world-wide by Prime Vision solutions. Our award-winning, patented HYCR™ recognition technology is applied to many-varied client applications resulting in a highly customizable and high-performance recognition solution.
Prime Vision’s parcel and flats automation suite, ParcelVision, has been installed at more than 30 sorting centres spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas.
There are few places on this planet that are further away from Holland than Australia, yet we have proven once again the ease of installation and integration benefits of our standard parcel recognition platform, ParcelVision, even this far away from our corporate homeland.