Patent ID: 7804979

Claim:
A mail inserter control system, comprising: a high-speed mail inserter including a raceway for conveying a plurality of printed work pieces of a mailing; a line-scan camera positioned relative to a raceway of the inserter, for detecting information on each of the printed work pieces for the mailing as the printed work pieces move in an uninterrupted manner along the raceway; and a reader including a processor for reading information from a region of interest (ROI) from an image of at least one of the printed work pieces obtained by the line-scan camera, wherein the processor is configured for receiving output of the line-scan camera without having to stop the at least one printed work piece during its progression through the raceway, the processor is configured to decode a first line scan of the at least one printed work piece while a next successive second line of the at least one printed work piece is at least concurrently being scanned by the line scan camera, iterating the processing during continuous movement of the at least one printed work piece along the raceway, and performing optical character recognition (OCR) on a plurality of decoded lines, the processor is configured to provide a user interface, the user interface including a repositionable and resizable control grid, and the ROI is delineated by positioning the control grid over a representation of the at least one printed work piece on the user interface and associating parameters with the ROI to focus one or more OCR reading processes on a target area of the image of the at least one printed work piece, the target area containing expected information which can be compared against a previously stored expected information derived from an electronic file.