The USPS address recognition technology (at least as of 2 years ago when I was working on it) is not human-level. A fraction of the images cannot be resolved a

The USPS address recognition technology (at least as of 2 years ago when I was working on it) is not human-level. A fraction of the images cannot be resolved and are still sent to human keyers at rec sites. This fraction has been decreasing steadily over the years but it has not yet fallen to zero. It's important to remember that performance is critical when talking about machine perception. OCR, handwriting recognition, face recognition, etc. can all be done but at what level of accuracy ? At least until very recently machine performance on these tasks has fallen well short of human level abilities.