[lug] USPS & Linux

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

For those intereseted:

I don't know if the USPS is still using it but the 
handwritting recognition program used to convert the
handwritten zip-codes to those bar-codes was based
on the handwriting recognition research of Dr. James
Keller at the University of Missouri - Columbia.

-jeremy

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:03:15PM -0600, ljp wrote:
> I just read an article in embedded linux journal (not online yet), that the 
> USPS is using 7000 linux systems for their OCR sorting system. And all this 
> time I thought all the mis sorted letters were software problems... :)
> That and their buildings are all paid for, and they STILL manage to lose money.
> 
> ljp
> 
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