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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sprays on the corresponding barcode.
Typed or printed envelopes are easily recognized by the OCR.
Hand written mail, on the other hand, is mostly processed by the Remote Bar Code Sorter.
Now this mail really has an adventure straight from the future. Although the mail does not leave the facility at this stage, it may be processed by a postal employee who is working at a station several states away!
The RBCS is equipped with a camera that allows a video representation of the envelope to appear on a computer terminal hundreds of miles away.
Employees who sit at those
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