US Mail OCR API

Automatically extract key information from US Mail in your application

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Built for US Mail data extraction

Mindee's platform automates the entire US Mail management process. This reduces manual workload and increases accuracy,,making US Mail automation seamless and efficient.

Automate data capture

With our US Mail OCR technology, automate the extraction of key information from physical mail, including sender details, recipient information, and postal dates. This reduces the need for manual data entry, saving time and minimizing errors. Our solution ensures that critical data from mail correspondence is accurately captured and easily accessible

Streamline Mail Management

Our US Mail OCR solution integrates seamlessly with your document management systems, allowing for real-time organization and categorization of incoming mail. This streamlines mail handling and reduces the time spent on sorting and filing. Your team can efficiently manage large volumes of mail with minimal effort, increasing productivity.

Enhance Record Keeping and Compliance

Ensure compliance and organized record-keeping with our US Mail OCR. By digitizing and storing all mail data in a searchable format, we help simplify audits and internal reviews. Easily access detailed mail records to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and streamline documentation workflows

Improve Operational Efficiency

Our US Mail OCR provides structured data that can be easily integrated into your existing operational systems. This allows for faster processing of mail-related tasks, better tracking of correspondence, and improved customer response times. Leverage accurate, digitized mail data to optimize your operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

Unlock the power of document automation

Our platform is designed for operation professionals and software vendors who want to optimise their business processes relying on documents. If you want to save time, improve data quality in your systems, and automate complex tasks effortlessly, Mindee is for you.

Reduce manual entry by 88%

Free your workforce from tedious tasks

Decrease average error rate by 30%

Rely on AI you can trust

Cut turnaround time by 57%

Accelerate your business operations

US Mail OCR extracted fields

Transform any scan or photos of US Mail into usable data in your software

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Sender Name

Capture who the mail is from. The Mail OCR API supports both typed and handwritten characters for this field.

Sender Address

Capture where the mail is being sent from and, in some instances, where it needs to be sent back.

Recipient Names

Extract multiple recipient names on the envelope in the instance there is more than one relevant individual in a household, department, or organization.

Recipient Address

Extract to whom the letter or package must be sent to. Both handwritten and typed addresses will be scanned.

Other Address

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Private Mailbox Number

List any relevant private mailbox (PMB) number – a secure, personal mail storage service offered by a private company.

Choosing the right US Mail OCR for your process

Finding the right OCR technology to use for your project can be a heavy task. Whatever your use case is, criteria like extraction performances, response time, integration time, pricing, scalability... should be taken into account in order to maximize the added value in your software. Feel free to contact us if you don't find the answers to your questions below.

📄 How can I test the US Mail OCR API?

Our US Mail API is free to use and available to any user having an account on our platform.

To test our APIs, you only have to create a free account using this link, and you'll be able to drag and drop US Mail in the live interface to see the data extracted in real-time and JSON response. A demo page is also available here.

💸 Is Mindee's US Mail OCR API free to use?

A free plan is available to everyone and allows you to perform 250 Mails processing per month for free. No credit card is required.

Above 250 Mails per month, the price per Mails processed starts at $0.10 and can decrease to $0.01 per Mails depending on the monthly volume. See the pricing page for more information.

🗺️ What are the supported countries?

Our US Mail OCR API is based on our computer vision technology that doesn't rely on text to extract the Mails data, but only on the image. This removes the language limitations.

The OCR was trained with US Mail from more than 50 countries and works on US Mails from all around the world for numeric fields, and all Latin alphabet countries for text ones.

🕔 How complicated is it to integrate the API?

Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the US Mail OCR API into their applications easily.

We also offer a set of client libraries in all the main back-end languages, and an open-source UI toolkit that helps create front-end features. You can check out our open-source repository or our API documentation for more details.

📈️ What is the OCR accuracy?

Our US Mail OCR's accuracy is above 90%, with precision above 95% for most of the fields. These performances are computed on a data set including more than 50 countries.

Testing our OCR API is free, all you need is an account. Feel free to drop US Mails in the live interface to see the OCR performance on your data.

⚡ What's the average API response time?

The processing time is around 1.3 seconds per page for pdfs and 0.9 seconds for a Mail image.

We often improve this processing time and our target is below 500ms. Our goal is to make sure you can create real-time user experiences in your application.

🎯️ Does the OCR work on low-quality images?

Yes, the OCR was trained on a lot of US Mail from a wide variety of layouts and image quality and learned to process the most complex ones.

We also use data augmentation to make sure that no blur or ink stains prevent the OCR from reading the data as long as it's readable.

🤓️ Do you offer technical support?

We have a Slack community where you can ask your questions and chat with our team.

We don't do the integration in your infrastructure ourselves but we can set up a custom level of support on a per-case basis if needed.

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