Video Coding for Postal & Parcel Companies
Avoid Unnecessary Costs, Sorting Inefficiencies, and Staffing Issues by Outsourcing your Video Coding
Spectos Video Coding (VC) is a solution for postal and parcel logistics companies to close the automation gap in automated sorting operations. Letter mail, parcels and items of all kinds that are not machine-readable are quickly decoded by a team of experts from Spectos. Streamline your day-to-day operations and reduce costs associated with manual data capture tasks and inefficient processes by outsourcing your video coding.
Stable delivery times and compliance with service levels
Of all shipments, 3 - 7 % cannot be processed automatically by sorting machines. Spectos supports you with a flexible and trained team of experts in the manual decoding of addresses for maximum sortation efficiency.
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Reasons for Failure of OCR Readings
Handwritten
Reflections
Address on multiple lines
Costs, capacity, personnel: postal companies’ challenges
Postal operators around the world have heavily invested in sorting machines. This is inevitable to increase sorting capacity and efficiency and keep pace with growing e-commerce shipment volumes. However, a large proportion of items cannot be sorted automatically and requires video coding due to the OCR software not being able to retrieve the address details. Causes include handwritten addresses, reflective backgrounds, information outside the field, or crumpled labels. Often the data also does not match the information in the address database.
How does the Spectos video coding solution work?
For letters and parcels that cannot be automatically decoded and sorted by machines, Spectos has developed an off-site solution that can be easily integrated into your existing sorting system. In parallel to the ongoing sorting process, a professional external team decodes the non-machine-readable items via a remote real-time session. After successful decoding, the parcels and letters are placed back on the sorting machine a second time, which can now assign the correct sorting destination.
Any unresolved questions about our Video Coding Solution?
Feel free to contact me, Katja Peschke, with your individual concerns.
Benefits of Outsourced Video Coding for Your Sorting Operations
Cost Reduction
Payment per VC item vs. fixed personnel costs
Efficiency
Enhancing the efficiency of the sorting operations
Quality
Improving the quality of the sorting processes and delivery time
Flexibility
Ensuring flexibility with fluctuating postal volumes
Maximum sorting efficiency
The Spectos video coding solution can be integrated into the daily or nightly operations of postal companies. Improve processing efficiency by outsourcing your video coding and avoid costs and delays in sorting.
What You Should Know about Video Coding with Spectos
External decoding takes place during the ongoing sorting process 24/7/365
Completion of decoding max. 30 minutes after the last item was on the machine for sorting
Support of all shipment formats, all sorting machines and VC clients
For all common systems: BlueCrest, Siemens, Böwe, Bell & Howell, Atos, etc.
Compliance with all EU privacy policies (specifically General Data Protection Regulation)
Certified according to DIN ISO 9001:2015 and ISMS 27001:2003
Connection via VPN tunnel through RDP servers
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