摘要:
A luminescent address bar code is. applied to a predetermined location of a postal item at an early stage in its handling by the Postal Authorities to provide in a machine readable form the destination address written on the postal item. This machine readable bar code is then sensed and used to route the postal item in automatic sorting machines. Errors in the reading of the luminescent address bar codes leads to the postal item being misrouted or being rejected. The quantity of light emitted from the luminescent address bar codes varies with the nature and properties of the surface of the postal item and it is this variation in the quantitiy of light emitted which leads to errors in reading the codes. To overcome this the reflectance of the surface of the postal item is monitored and then the quantity of flurescent or phosphorescent material applied to the postal item to form the bars of the address code is controlled in dependence upon the reflectance of the postal item, so that the visible light emitted from the code bars on every postal item is substantially constant.
摘要:
In an embodiment, a sorting system includes a sorting device configured to sort items by destination and to group items to be shipped to a common destination at a sorting destination of the sorting device. A control device is configured to receive information about the items being shipped to the common destination and to select a box type to accommodate the items going to the common destination based on the received information about the items. An information providing device is configured to indicate the box type that has been selected by the control device.
摘要:
Systems and methods of processing items. Items in a distribution network or process may be scanned at every handling point in the distribution network, and each scan is recorded in a central repository. The scan information can be used to generate real-time access to data, analytical tools, predictive tools, and tracking reports.
摘要:
A method for sorting consignments (2), in which consignments (2) are sorted automatically in a sorting system in order to be delivered to a recipient by the postman and are reintroduced into a sorting machine (8) for an additional sorting operation in order to re-order the consignments (2) in accordance with a certain classification by the recipient, is characterized by the following steps: digital images (3) corresponding respectively to the consignments (2) to be delivered to the recipient are transmitted to said recipient from the sorting system, these digital images (3) being associated in this transmission with unique consignment identifiers (Id-Tag) generated by the sorting system, for the purpose of a relative reorganization of said unique consignment identifiers by the recipient in an order which defines said classification, and the sorting machine (8) is ordered to carry out the additional sorting operation of said consignments (2) on the basis of said unique consignment identifiers reorganized in accordance with said classification by the recipient.
摘要:
A sort device (1A) recognizes address information applied to paper sheets by an online OCR (22), collates a recognition result of this online OCR (22) with address information stored in an address information database section (23, 3), judges, based on a processing situation of another sort device (1B, 1C, ...) capable of performing data communication with the sort device (1A), whether or not to transfer images of the paper sheets to the other sort device (1B, 1C, ...) in a case where the recognition result of the online OCR (22) does not match any character information stored in the address information database section (23, 3), recognizes the character information applied to the paper sheets from the images of the paper sheets by a recognizing process different from that of the online OCR (22) in a case where it is judged that the images are not transferred, and transfers, to the other sort device (1B, 1C, ...), the images of the paper sheets judged to be transferred by the judgment.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for processing postal items, whereby a physical value is measured for detecting (2) if the outer surface of a postal item is made of plastic and the digital image of the outer surface thereof is processed for detecting (3) if said surface has a noisy background. From the result of both detection processes, the outer surface of said postal item is determined (4) to be printable or not.
摘要:
An installation and a method of processing printed papers (7) for dispatch purposes. The installation (1) and the method enable printed papers (7) to be packaged in packaging units such as bundles (8) and/or containers (9), and enable the final content of each packaging unit (8, 9) to be determined by sampling in the packaging system and by using data stored in a database.