of the evaluation results with respect to mutual consistency the first component of the address information in particular can be the zip or postal code the second component can be a street or a house number inconsistencies between both components may be due for example to reading errors or an incorrect listing of the zip or postal code in case of a wrong information a number of alternatives for the street name are obtained starting with the first three or four digits of the zip or postal code the operator performs an extraction coding of the second component of the address information which also results in a number of suggestions for the street name during the consistency check only those suggestions are not rejected for which the results of these two analyses are mutually compatible the aforementioned embodiment is explained in a further detail in the following with the aid of two examples on one item the address is listed as in that case u201c 78457 buck 5 u201d is used to obtain entry u201c buckley 5 konstanz u201d from a street directory during extraction coding this is a correct association of the incorrect zip code 78457 during the consistency check the inconsistency of u201c bucklestr u201d and u201c buckley u201d is detected through automatic evaluation and the respective evaluation result is rejected on the other hand if the address line with zip code and location information is read with a high error rate ocr whereas the street information is read with a low error rate the operator only enters the zip code or a number of letters from the location information it is preferable.