Compador teams up with OCR specialist Parascript
German manufacturer Compador Technologies is to make use of US optical character recognition (OCR) systems in its mail sorting machines. The Berlin-based company has linked up with American firm Parascript to make use of technology that can read handwritten addresses on letters, flats and parcels to improve first-time read rates and cut costs in mail processing.
The companies said today that their integrated system would meet the needs of private postal operators by allowing rapid sorting of mixed mail.
The technology will mean improving first-pass read rates in to maximise the use of a sorting systems full capacity – reducing costs and increasing productivity along the way.
Karsten Sonnadara, CEO at Compador Technologies, said his company evaluated several OCR systems before selecting Parascript’s AddressScript system.
“We are extremely pleased with the results achieved and look forward to many more deployments of our combined mail processing solution,” he said.
The Compador and Parascript system has already been taken up by several private postal operators in Germany, the companies said.
Compador, which was spun out of German consolidation service PostCon Deutschland to become an independent corporation in 2006, offers mail sorting systems including the high-speed Kiowa 1.2 and the mixed-mail sorting system Comanche 1.5.
Colorado-based Parascript offers OCR software for use in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and states that its technology is currently used to read addresses on around 100bn items a year.
