Patent ID: 8625842

Claim:
A computer system configured to supply automated mail recognition processing to a legacy manual mail recognition processing system, said computer system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: detecting a request by a keyer desk software component to display a mail piece scan image on a computer display connected to said computer system to be processed by a human user, said mail piece scan image comprising a digital image of at least a portion of a mail piece; temporarily preventing said mail piece scan image from being displayed on said computer display; copying said mail piece scan image from memory to create a duplicate mail piece scan image; performing automated recognition processing on said duplicate mail piece scan image to resolve an address contained within said duplicate mail piece scan image, said automated recognition processing creating an automated recognition processing result data; sending said automated recognition processing result data to said keyer desk software component if said automated recognition processing successfully resolves said address contained within said duplicate mail piece scan image corresponding to said mail piece scan image; and permitting the human user to manually process said mail piece scan image only if said automated recognition processing was not able to successfully resolve said address contained within said duplicate mail piece scan image corresponding to said mail piece scan image, wherein sending said automated recognition processing result data to said keyer desk software component includes sending keystroke events to said keyer desk software component emulating the keypresses required of the human user when manually resolving an address contained in the mail piece image, and wherein performing automated recognition processing on said duplicate mail piece scan image to resolve said duplicate mail piece scan image includes: transmitting said duplicate mail piece scan image to an automated mail recognition processing system; receiving an automated mail recognition processing system response from said automated mail recognition processing system; and creating said automated recognition processing result data based on said automated mail recognition processing system response.