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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
James A. Salomon, Cheshire, CT (US);
James A. Salomon, Cheshire, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and system for improving the capture of an OCR character region of a postage indicium, wherein the OCR character region may exhibit a defect associated with the production or the reading of the indicium. A plurality of error compensation marks is provided in the proximity of the OCR character region such that the error compensation marks are caused to exhibit one or more changes indicative of the defect of the OCR character region. Thus, the defect in the OCR character region can be identified by detecting the changes in the error compensation marks. Accordingly, the defect in the OCR character region can be compensated for when the OCR characters are interpreted.