PIN Berlin deploys mail processing solution
PIN Berlin, a European private postal company, has implemented Böwe Bell + Howell’s SABRE Plus International with Parascript’s AddressScript CM for Germany. The integrated OCR solution allows PIN Berlin to automatically read over 94% of addresses on mail pieces. This includes 15% of handwritten addresses, resulting in over 30% savings per mail item over manual data entry (video coding).
PIN Berlin processes over 600,000 items per day in an eight hour time window. Of these, 250,000 pieces are processed on Böwe Bell + Howell’s Criterion sorting transport, which integrates Parascript’s AddressScript CM and Böwe Bell + Howell’s SABRE Plus OCR system.
“We are so pleased with the mail processing solution from Böwe Bell + Howell and Parascript and the results achieved that we plan to deploy the solution on all of our transports in 2010,” said Michael Beckman, operations manager for PIN Berlin.
“With the combination of SABRE reading technology from Böwe Bell + Howell and Parascript’s machine and hand-print recognition software, we are able to respond to the needs of high-volume mailers and provide scanning rates, for even the most illegibly printed addresses and sloppily addressed mail pieces. As a result, we have been able to significantly reduce first pass rejects and increase read rates,” said Wilfried Hahn, operations manager for BÖWE Systec GmbH, the firm servicing the sorters for PIN Berlin.
