U.S. Postal Service, Automation Purchasing, 8403 Lee Highway, Merrifield, Virginia 22082-8150

D -- REPLY CARD SCANNING AND DATA EXTRACTION Sol AP010. Due 091895. Contact Point, Evelyn Hunt, Fax: 703-280-8412. The Reply Card Scanning (RCS) service is designed to enhance and extend current business and courtesy reply cards services. The USPS will scan the information-bearing side of the cards at the point of origin and deliver the images electronically to the customers. Additionally, the USPS can also process the scanned images to extract the information contents for electronic delivery. The USPS intends to process and extract information contents automatically using imaging and pattern recognition technologies. However, there will always be information that cannot be extracted automatically. This is particularly true of handwritten information. Since it is expected that some of the RCS customers (who are the recipients of the cards) will prefer to have 100 percent content delivery so that they will not have to deal with images and data entry operations, opportunities exist for organizations to offer RCS customers value-added services by furnishing the contents not extracted by the RCS service. Requests for additional information must be sent in writing, directly to Ms. Evelyn Hunt via Fax No. 703-280-8412, or by mail at United States Postal Service, Automation Purchasing, Attention: Ms. Evelyn Hunt, 8403 Lee Highway, Merrifield, VA 22082-8150, and received no later than September 18, 1995. (240)

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