Caere's OmniPage Pro and OmniForm Available at Kinko's.

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--Caere Corporation (NASDAQ:CAER), the worldwide leader in scanner software, today formally announced that two of its products -- OmniPage Pro(R) for Windows and Macintosh optical character recognition (OCR) software and OmniForm(R) for Macintosh forms conversion software -- are now available for use at Kinko's(R) branches nationwide.

OmniPage Pro and OmniForm join such leading applications as Microsoft Office, Corel's WordPerfect, Adobe PhotoShop, Symantec antivirus software, and others at more than 860 Kinko's branches throughout the United States and Canada. Kinko's customers can take advantage of these programs at design workstations that are rented for desktop publishing, web design, and other projects.

"Kinko's has enjoyed widespread growth and popularity because they offer a great variety of services to their customers," said Bob Cortale, Caere's director of North American sales and service. "People who have a project requiring specialized computer applications naturally head for Kinko's because they know they'll find the best hardware and software products to meet their needs. We're very proud to provide both the OCR and electronic forms software of choice for Kinko's nationwide."

OmniPage Pro

Users who need to convert scanned documents such as newspaper clippings, printed reports, resumes, and the like into computer-editable formats can do so easily with OmniPage Pro, the best selling and most accurate OCR software in the world. With this program, users can retain document formatting, edit documents, and save them to common, text-based programs like word processing applications, thereby eliminating the need to retype documents.

OmniForm

Kinko's customers who want to modify or update existing forms can easily scan in their form and OmniForm will automatically convert it into an identical editable electronic form. Customers can also use OmniForm's powerful design tools to quickly create new forms from scratch. Once completed, the forms are ready to be reproduced on-site.

Caere Corporation

Caere Corporation (NASDAQ:CAER) is the worldwide leader in scanner software. Its products bridge the gap between the paper and digital worlds by converting static, paper documents into dynamic, electronic information. Caere products include the OmniPage, WordScan, M/Series, and Recognita families of OCR software; OmniForm and OmniForm Internet Publisher family of electronic forms software; PageKeeper family of personal document management software; and a broad array of hardware/software solutions for document processing and OCR and barcode reading. Caere is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Its subsidiaries, Caere GmbH and Recognita Rt., are located in Munich and Budapest, respectively. Caere corporate and product information is available at http://www.caere.com on the World Wide Web.

Kinko's, Inc.

Founded in 1970 with one store, Kinko's has evolved into the leading global retail provider of document copying and business services. Headquartered in Ventura, California, Kinko's is a privately held company with more 900 branches in eight countries and 23,000 co-workers. For additional information, call 800/2-KINKOS, or check the web site at http://www.kinkos.com.

Note to Editors: Caere, OmniPage, OmniForm, PageKeeper, WordScan, and Recognita are registered trademarks, and M/Series is a trademark of Caere Corporation. Kinko's is a registered trademark of Kinko's, Inc. Trade names and trademarks of other companies appearing in this press release are the property of their respective holders.

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