Abstract
The British postcode system consists of between five and seven alphanumeric characters which can specify any geographical postal location in the United Kingdom down to the resolution of a single office block or a group of several residential houses in a street. It is therefore possible to attempt to automatically sort handwritten letter mail by locating and recognising the handwritten characters of the postcode. However, OCR of handwritten characters is not perfect and misrecognitions will occur resulting in an unacceptable error rate in the sorting performance.
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Hendrawan, Downton, A.C. (1994). Verification of Handwritten British Postcodes Using Address Features. In: Impedovo, S. (eds) Fundamentals in Handwriting Recognition. NATO ASI Series, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78646-4_17
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