Caere Corporation Sets New Imaging Industry Standard With Announcement of Integrated Developer Kit for OEMs, Developers and Resellers.

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--

Recognition Technologies Supermarket Provides An Open Architecture,

Single Source For High Performance OCR, ICR (handprint), Bar Code,

MICR and OMR 

Today's announcement by Caere Corporation's (NASDAQ:CAER) Imaging Products Group of a new series of multi-faceted developer toolkits will provide the document imaging industry with a "one-stop shop" for integrating multiple recognition technologies into applications. Software developers, OEM's, systems integrators and value added resellers (VARs), will now be able to take advantage of the open architecture of the Developers Kit 2000, a single source that includes OCR (machine print), ICR (handprint), bar code, OCR-A, OCR-B, MICR (E13B) and OMR. By offering an open API architecture, 32-bit software developers will gain the flexibility to integrate other individual image capture technologies or products not shipped in the Caere product. An ActiveX or C interface supported by controls will help drive document processing.

Caere, the world's leading supplier of OCR toolkits, expects the announcement to fundamentally enhance its existing industry reputation as a supplier of leading-edge imaging technology. The new kits will provide the development community with a recognition technology supermarket that delivers unparalleled technology performance and flexibility. This single source solution provides application developers with benefits both at the front-end due to easier and faster product development and at the back-end in terms of simplifying licensing issues and the calculation of royalty payments.

Caere also announced special introductory pricing for the new toolkits, which will make them particularly attractive to the document imaging industry and the more than 1500 members of its TEAM OCR network of VARs and systems integrators. The kits will be available at prices ranging from $2,495-$5,495 when they are scheduled to ship in December 1998.

"Caere's delivery of single source toolkits will enable the industry to reduce development cycles and the time it takes to integrate software applications that incorporate multiple recognition technologies," said Chip Maloney, vp of Imaging Products Group, Caere. "Plus, because we understand that the imaging industry frequently requires customized solutions, our API will give them the freedom to integrate other imaging components when their application warrants it."

Technology Highlights

Developers Kit 2000: Caere has completely redesigned its Developers Kit to provide developers a choice of programming interfaces. Integration has been simplified with Visual Basic and Visual C/C++, in addition to an easier-to-use, industry standard ActiveX interface. These advanced recognition toolkits also include powerful capabilitiescognition manager modules as well as output forn technologies," said Charlie Montague, product d zone control. These controls are designed to simplify the development of correction editors and image viewing and processing. "With these custom controls, our developere and integrate other third-party technologies, The Professional Recognition Kit comes with all (E13B), OMR (checkmark) and bar code engines which recognize industry standard types such as code 39, 128, above and includes all of the progra mming interfaces. In addition, it includes two award-winning OCR machinnt languages.

The 'C' Developer Kit providabilities, which can be added to either the Pro Pricing of these new toolkits ranges from $2,49US headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., and European headquarters, Caere GmbH., in Munich, Germany, is the worbridge the gap between the paper and digital worlds by improving the way people use documents. Through Caere that effortlessly retrieves a wide range of information from virtually any source; high volume OCR hardware

The Company notes that the statements in this release that relate to future plans, events, and perfod on numerous factors including, but not limited to, work stoppages, engineering delays, quality assurance tng systems, a significant change in the competitrademarks of Caere Corporation. Other products n