Patent ID: 8625841

Claim:
A computer system configured to provide 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: receiving a manual mail recognition processing request from an originating mail processing component, said manual mail recognition processing request including a mail piece scan image, said originating mail processing component having failed to automatically resolve an address in said mail piece scan image, said manual mail recognition processing request requesting manual processing of said mail piece scan image by a human, said mail piece scan image comprising a digital image of at least a portion of a mail piece, said digital image capturing a plurality of digital image addressing information associated with said mail piece; ignoring said request for manual processing of said mail piece scan image by a human and performing automated mail recognition processing of said mail piece scan image, said automated mail recognition processing including creating a plurality of computer recognized address portions if said automated mail recognition processing is successful, said plurality of computer recognized address portions corresponding to said plurality of digital image addressing information associated with said mail piece; generating a mail piece scan image processing result, said mail piece scan image processing result containing said plurality of computer recognized address portions if said automated mail recognition processing is successful; transmitting said mail piece scan image processing result to said originating mail processing component if said automated mail recognition processing is successful and said mail piece scan image processing results contains said plurality of computer recognized address portions; and transmitting said mail piece scan image to said manual mail recognition system if said automated mail recognition processing is not successful and said mail piece scan image processing results does not contain said plurality of computer recognized address portions, wherein said manual mail recognition system includes a plurality of human users, said human users performing manual mail recognition of said mail piece image if said mail piece scan image is transmitted to said manual mail recognition system.