Caere Ships OmniPage Pro 7.0 for Macintosh; Powerful New OCR Offers More Than a Dozen Powerful Enhancements.LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1997--Caere Caere (sē`rē), ancient city of Etruria, c.30 mi (50 km) N of Rome, Italy, at the site of the modern Cerveteri. Although a few miles from the sea, it had ports at Alsium (near modern Palo) and Pyrgi (modern Santa Severa). During the 7th and 6th cent. B.C., Caere reached the period of its greatest prosperity. Corporation (NASDAQ:CAER) today announced shipment of OmniPage Character recognition software for PCs and the Macintosh from ScanSoft, Inc., Peabody, MA (www.scansoft.com). It was the first personal computer software that could distinguish text from graphics and convert a wide variety of fonts into text. Its capabilities include taking PDF documents and converting them to word processing or spreadsheet format, ready for editing. Originally developed by Caere Corporation, which merged with ScanSoft in 2000. Pro 7.0 for Macintosh, the latest version of Caere's award-winning optical character recognition software for the Macintosh operating system (operating system) Macintosh Operating System - (Mac OS) Apple Computer, Inc.'s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder." The multitasking version of Finder was called "MultiFinder" until multitasking was integrated into the core of the OS with the introduction of System 7.0 in 1990. that provides users with fast, easy, and accurate OCR OCR - Optical Character Reader OCR - Optical Character Recognition OCR - Obligational Contractual Relations (customer-supplier model) OCR - Off the Cuff Remark OCR - Off-Color Remark OCR - Office Claim Representative OCR - Office for Civil Rights OCR - Office of Civil Rights OCR - Office of Coal Research OCR - Office of Collateral Responsibility OCR - Office of Community Relations OCR - Office of Congressional Relations (OPM). OmniPage Pro 7.0 offers users more than a dozen powerful new enhancements for increased OCR productivity. Version 7.0 provides a refined user interface, ease-of-use enhancements, improved integration with word processors, and new tools for improved control over the formatting of output text. OmniPage Pro 7.0 is available in retail upgrade and non-upgrade versions. The retail upgrade version is priced at $129 (street) and the non-upgrade version at $499 (street). The $129 retail upgrade product is available to owners of any Caere OCR software product (including all versions of OmniPage and WordScan) purchased alone or bundled with most popular scanners. The Company Caere Corporation, with U.S. headquarters in Los Gatos and European headquarters, Caere GmbH, in Munich, Germany, is the leader in OCR technology and a leading developer of desktop form processing and document management products. Caere's products include the OmniPage and WordScan lines of OCR software that convert printed and faxed documents into electronic text; OmniForm, which converts paper forms to electronic format, and OmniForm Internet Publisher, which converts paper forms to web-ready electronic documents; the PageKeeper line of Windows-based document management software that effortlessly retrieves a wide range of information from virtually any source; the M/Series high-speed, high-volume OCR hardware and software for commercial applications; and a broad array of OCR and bar code readers that accelerate transaction processing. -0- Trademark References: Caere, OmniPage, OmniPage Pro, OmniForm, PageKeeper, and WordScan are registered trademarks, and OmniForm Internet Publisher and M/Series are trademarks of Caere Corporation, in the United States and/or other countries. CONTACT: Caere Corporation Patrick Crisp, PR Manager 408-395-7000 ext. 2049 patrickc@caere.com |
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