Postal Bar Code Decoding and Sortation

SwiftDecoder Application

Postal facilities encounter a number of difficulties efficiently identifying and sorting parcels using the Postal bar codes found on them.

Because of the small size of a typical postal bar code and the low-resolution printers used to create them, postal codes can be one of the most difficult types of codes to find and decode in real world environments. Postal codes are also often damaged or covered by plastic due to the rough handling they have to endure. Both cause major problems for the high-speed decoding systems used to decode them.

SwiftDecoder has an uncanny ability to find and quickly read the difficult postal bar codes that pass through postal facilities around the world. Whether the codes are damaged, obscured by plastic, poorly printed or traveling at fast and erratic speeds SwiftDecoder enables imaging scanners in postal applications to achieve the highest possible read rates.

Higher read rates are extremely important to postal applications and slight increases can greatly benefit a facility's costs associated with finding, reading and sorting parcels.

Parcels whose bar codes can not be read on the first pass are very costly to postal sorting facilities. If the codes can not be read then optical character recognition (OCR) and eventually manual sorting must be performed to get the parcel to its proper location. The higher read rates achieved by using SwiftDecoder greatly reduce the amount of parcels that have to be sorted by these costly methods.

The AIDC equipment used in postal facilities is often very high-end and expensive as a result of the demanding requirements of the typical postal application. In many cases the power of SwiftDecoder's bar code decoding engine allows less complex and less costly AIDC hardware systems to be used while achieving or exceeding the performance of higher-end technologies.

SwiftDecoder is reponsible for decoding every piece of mail flowing throught the United States at some portion of the supply chain and can also be found powering many AIDC systems throughout the rest of the world due to its unparralleled stregth in postal applications.