Patent ID: 8630451

Claim:
A method of recognizing certain information on a mailpiece, said method comprising the steps of: taking a digital image of the mailpiece, which image includes said information to be recognized; applying second and first recognition processing to said digital image for the purpose of recognizing said information using respectively secondary and primary OCR, said digital image being retained in a memory for the time it takes the secondary OCR to perform its recognition of information of the digital image; using a secondary OCR that is improved relative to said primary OCR so as to obtain, with said secondary OCR, additional results for recognizing said information relative to the information obtainable by said primary OCR; applying said second recognition processing to said digital image, upstream from said first recognition processing; encoding said additional results and inlaying into said digital image said additional results as encoded in a form recognizable by said first recognition processing; and applying said first recognition processing to said digital image further containing said additional results, having said first recognition processing extract and use said additional results encoded in the digital image for the purpose of recognizing said information.