A Study on the Error Correction of Postal Barcode to Increase the Performance of Automatic Processing in Mail Items


The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 2393-2402, Sep. 1999
10.3745/KIPSTE.1999.6.9.2393,   PDF Download:

Abstract

In most mail automatic processing centers, after facing and canceling, letter mails is passed through an Optical Character Recognition/Barcode Sorter (OCR/BS) to read the postal code and 3 of 5 fluorescent (luminescent) barcode is applied. Normally, 31%~35% of these nails are rejected. The main reasons for reading failures are por printing quality of addresses and barcodes, script printing, and failure to locate the address. Our goal is to provide mailer with the highest quality of delivery service and customer barcode service as we move toward 100% barcoding automation of letter mails. In this paper, we propose a method of correcting 3 of 5 barcode errors for increasing the performance of automatic processing system in mail items. 3 of 5 barcode errors are corrected by using error pattern rules, which are automatically extracted from parity bits and postal codes. The experimental result shows that our system can correct barcode errors in accuracy of 21.09%~50%, respectively.


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[IEEE Style]
P. M. Sung, W. D. Chin, K. H. Kyu, "A Study on the Error Correction of Postal Barcode to Increase the Performance of Automatic Processing in Mail Items," The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 2393-2402, 1999. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1999.6.9.2393.

[ACM Style]
Park Moon Sung, Woo Dong Chin, and Kim Hye Kyu. 1999. A Study on the Error Correction of Postal Barcode to Increase the Performance of Automatic Processing in Mail Items. The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), 6, 9, (1999), 2393-2402. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1999.6.9.2393.