Global Postal Automation
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Publication Title
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Publisher
Springer
Publisher Location
New York, NY
Volume
296
First page number:
135
Last page number:
154
Abstract
Since the late 1950s there has been a shift in postal automation in the United States. In this paper, we examine the effects of postal automation in the U.S. and focus on the major innovations that have been implemented to increase productivity and decrease labor costs. From the beginning of the New Field Theory approach to image processing technologies, we focus on the role of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Similarly, we also discuss how other countries, such as India, China, and Japan, have executed postal automation. With rising concerns about automation and the effect it could have on the labor market, we examine what lies ahead in the future for postal automation.
Keywords
Bangla numeral recognition; Binarization; Feature extraction; Hand-written address interpretation technology; Letter sorting machine; New field theory; Optical character recognition; Postal automation
Disciplines
Programming Languages and Compilers | Systems Architecture
Repository Citation
Vachon, A.,
Ordonez, L.,
Cacho, J. F.
(2022).
Global Postal Automation.
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 296
135-154.
New York, NY: Springer.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82199-9_10