Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
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in the same direction, with the stamps in the upper right hand corner. That way, it can cancel the stamp, or postmark the envelope.
The postmark helps tell you the first stop on your letter’s travel itinerary.
The rest of the itinerary really depends upon the way the letter is prepared. Metered mail with applied barcodes that correspond to the destinating address is sent straight to the automated equipment. Stamped mail makes another stop, depending on whether the address is typed or hand written.
Typed mail goes through the Optical Character Readers. The OCR reads the address on the envelope in a fraction of a second, and then
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