Patent ID: 6885758

Claim:
Method for forming and/or updating dictionaries for automatic reading of addresses, characterized by the following steps: buffering of the reading results achieved by the OCR reader, i.e. the results of the addresses of an established number of transmission images or transmission images read within an established time interval, divided into unambiguously read results with agreement with the dictionary entry and into rejected reading results without agreement with the dictionary entry, formation of classes of words or associated word groups with the pertinent representatives of the buffered and rejected reading results, the word groups consisting of n address words n=1, 2, . . . a, between which m, m=0, 1, . . . b, additional words at a time are located, and the words of the classes of words or the words of the classes of word groups, relative to a certain n-value and m-value at the time, among one another do not fall below a certain similarity quantity, acceptance of at least one representative of those classes with a frequency which exceeds a fixed value into the dictionary or dictionaries of the assigned address areas.