Agfa Monotype Supplies Font For Caere Corporation; Enhanced Screen Quality Font Now in OmniPage Pro.Business Editors WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000 Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc announced today that it has supplied Caere Corporation, the leading developer of software solutions for scanners and digital cameras, with a font for OmniPage Pro, the world's best-selling OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. application. Caere has included Agfa Monotype's Times New Roman(R) Condensed con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. font in their OmniPage Pro 10 software program. The font is part of Agfa Monotype's Enhanced Screen Quality (ESQ Noun 1. Esq - a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name Esquire Britain, Great Britain, U.K. ) line of fonts, which are TrueType fonts that have been engineered to allow the highest degree of on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. quality and legibility. "OCR accuracy is the most important feature of any OCR application. Not only do OCR users expect accurate word recognition, but they also expect the OCR program to preserve the integrity and formatting of their original pages," said Natalie Miller Natalie Miller is a Northern Irish TV and Radio Presenter on Belfast CityBeat and NVTV. She also works on the Young Star Search and sometimes co-hosts the show. [1] , senior OmniPage Pro product manager at Caere. "We are happy to be working with Agfa Monotype monotype, type set by the Monotype machine. See printing. monotype or monoprint In art printmaking, a technique prized because of its unique textural qualities. to improve OmniPage Pro's ability to accurately maintain the formatting of original documents and to enhance the overall user experience." Agfa Monotype's Enhanced Screen Quality fonts have been developed to allow the best representation possible at any size resolution. Therefore, Enhanced Screen Quality fonts are recommended for manufacturers of software and hardware products that rely heavily on on-screen text display. The ESQ technology was developed when Agfa Monotype licensed Arial(R), Times New Roman and Courier New to Microsoft for use in Windows. Agfa Monotype has since licensed ESQ fonts to software developers who realize the importance of on-screen text legibility. "We're very pleased that Caere chose Agfa Monotype to assist them by supplying one of our highly-legible fonts for their flagship program" said Brian Kraimer, vice president at Agfa Monotype. "An important aspect of Omni Page Pro is its ability to create on-screen, editable documents that mirror their printed counterparts, so page format retention and on-screen font clarity is extremely important to their customers." About Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa Monotype Corporation is a major provider of digital content for graphic professionals. The company is a recognized leader in fonts and font technologies and an innovator in color and screening technologies. Agfa Monotype is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Agfa Corporation, headquartered in Ridgefield Park Ridgefield Park, village (1990 pop. 12,454), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1892. Chiefly residential, it manufactures some paper goods. , NJ. Agfa is part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies, headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems, primarily for the graphics, medical and industrial radiography Radiography is the use of ionising electromagnetic radiation to view objects in a way that can't be seen otherwise. Radiography in general should not be confused with the use of ionizing radiation to change or modify objects; radiography's purpose is strictly for viewing. , and consumer imaging and photography markets. Worldwide, Agfa's annual sales are approximately $4.7 billion. About Caere Corporation Caere Corporation is a developer of software solutions for scanners and digital cameras. The company develops optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (OCR), electronic forms, Web publishing, document management, and media asset management software. Caere products bridge the gap between the paper and digital worlds by converting static paper documents into dynamic electronic information. Caere products include OmniPage(R) OCR software; OmniForm(R) and OmniForm Internet Publisher electronic forms software; PageKeeper(R) personal document management software; ImageAXS media asset management products; and Production OCR solutions and Developers Kits. Caere is headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif. Caere corporate and product information is available at http://www.caere.com. Agfa Monotype Locations Corporate office: Agfa Monotype Corporation 200 Ballardvale Street Wilmington, MA 01887-1069 phone 978.658.5600 fax 978.657.8268 Agfa Monotype Corporation 985 Busse Road Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 phone 847.718.0400 fax 847.718.0500 Agfa Monotype Ltd Unit 2, Perrywood Business Park Salfords, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5DZ phone (44) 01737 765959 fax (44) 01727 769243 Agfa-Gevaert Japan, Ltd. 8-1, Higashiyama 3-chome Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0043 phone 81-3-5704-3141 fax 81-3-5704-3089 |
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