Features of AddressDoctor's Software Library

AddressDoctor supports the following Non-Latin writing systems

1. Greek transliteration (BGN/PCGN 1962, ISO 843 - 1997)
2. Cyrillic transliteration (BGN/PCGN 1947, ISO 9 - 1995)
3. Hebrew transliteration
4. Japanese Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji transliteration
5. Chinese Pinyin transliteration (Mandarin, Cantonese) for both Simplified and Traditional Chinese
6. Korean Hangul transliteration

AddressDoctor Character Set Mapping and Transliteration is fully Unicode enabled and is the basis for all AddressDoctor products.

AddressDoctor allows you to

• Analyze unstructured or partly structured addresses and divide them into individual elements

• Recognize countries (by Name, ISO codes, major cities, etc.)
• Prepare information before actual address validation occurs for better results
• Process 40 different character sets and transform between them
• Standardize address elements (i.e. avenue -> ave, street -> st or vice versa)
• Reduce the length of individual address elements with "correct" abbreviation
• Differentiate between business or consumer addresses

The AddressDoctor Validation Engine was developed to deliver optimal results and reduce manual interaction. It also keeps false corrections (the change of an almost correct address to an incorrect one) to an absolute minimum.

In many cases it isn't possible to completely verify addresses. For these cases AddressDoctor offers a unique deliverability assessment that rates addresses based on elements present. Every address receives a deliverability assessment.

• Based on the world's largest postal reference database.
• Validates individual address elements and uses sophisticated phonetic and fault-tolerant methods.
• Correction only mode: addresses are processed automatically.
• Suggestion mode: suggestions are presented for ambiguous addresses.
• Fast Completion mode: supports data entry, i.e. for call centers.
• Output of standardized, formatted and corrected addresses AddressDoctor Standardization and Formatting.
• Uses a proprietary, efficient database for the reference data and eliminates the need for an external database.

Address Formatting

Once addresses are verified and corrected, AddressDoctor formats them according to the postal rules of each country.

For more information on how to format international addresses, please visit the Address Formats section on our website.

Address Enrichment

Once your address database was succesfuly verified and corrected by the automated address check of AddressDoctor's Software Library, you can enrich your addresses using Geocoding or Consumer Segmentation. Both enrichment options are fully integrated into the Software Library. For more information on our address enrichment offering, please go to Address Plus.