Caere and MySoftware Announce Bundling Agreement; Caere to Include MySoftware Products Free with OmniPage Pro.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998-- Bundled Software (1) Applications that are included with new hardware. For example, a new PC often comes with several applications, many of which may be light versions or full versions with no limit on usage. Others may be only 60- or 90-day trial packages. See bundle. Offers Added Value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
OmniPage Pro Customers During Promotion Period MySoftware Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MYSW), the worldwide leader in productivity software for small businesses, and Caere Corporation (NASDAQ:CAER CAER Centre d'Arts Escèniques de Reus (French) CAER Community Awareness and Emergency Response program CAER Chemical Awareness and Emergency Response Program ), the worldwide leader in scanner software, today announced a new software bundling agreement. Under the agreement, Caere will include MySoftware products with its OmniPage Pro 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 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. ) software in three different bundling arrangements. The free software offers added value for OmniPage Pro customers. The bundles will be available at select resellers for a limited time. The partnership between MySoftware and Caere provides small businesses with several helpful software programs for the price of one. All of the bundles include software to help small businesses with a variety of tasks, such as managing mailing lists An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new , designing Web sites, and creating marketing materials. "It's great to be working with Caere to provide consumers with such useful software packages," said Gregory Slayton, MySoftware's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The combination of MySoftware and Caere products gives small businesses many exciting, powerful features at an affordable price." Caere's OmniPage Pro 8.0 is the world's best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best OCR product. OCR is the technology that processes scanned documents and converts them into more useful, computer-editable text that can be used in word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and and other text-based applications. OCR eliminates the retyping of essentially any printed paper document, including memos, reports, contracts, correspondence, and resumes. Today's announcement involves three separate bundling arrangements. These bundles combine OmniPage Pro 8.0 for Windows Upgrade product with the following applications: 1) MySoftware's MyInternetBusinessPage, a Web page development program, and Jalapeno Hot Buttons, Hot Banners and Hot Backgrounds, flexible Web page design tools. Jalapeno software is developed and marketed by MySoftware. This bundle enables small businesses to easily convert printed materials into Web pages they design and publish with MySoftware products. This bundle is available immediately through MicroWarehouse and Insight Direct. 2) MySoftware's MyProfessionalMarketingMaterials and Pacifica PersonalWebPageDesigner to give small businesses all they need to market themselves on and off the Web. Pacifica software is also developed and marketed by MySoftware. This convenient bundle enables small businesses to scan information and easily edit it for incorporation into a Web page, brochure, and other marketing pieces. This bundle is available immediately at Computer Discount Warehouse, Multiple Zones, Computer City, Best Buy, Staples, MicroCenter and CompUSA. 3) MySoftware's MyMailList & Address Book and Pacifica's ProfessionalWebResume. This bundle makes job hunting easier by allowing users to scan and update printed resumes, post them on the Web, and mail them out quickly and easily. This bundle is available immediately through PC Connection and MidWest Micro. "As the cost of desktop scanners continues to fall, scanner customers expect to get more for their money in scanner software as well," said Larry Lunetta, Caere senior vice president of sales and strategic partners. "These bundles offer a sensational value -- the best OCR around coupled with these extremely useful products from MySoftware. The customer is clearly the winner." MySoftware Company has been a worldwide leader in providing productivity software for small businesses for more than a decade. MySoftware provides users with powerful, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use solutions, including tools for managing mail lists and for saving on direct mail postage. MySoftware also provides productivity tools for creating brochures, stationery, postcards, labels, databases, invoices and estimates, Internet home pages, Web-based resumes and Web-based calendars. Caere Corporation 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 Processing text documents, which includes indexing methods for text retrieval based on content. See document imaging. and OCR and barcode reading. Caere is headquartered in Los Gatos, California “Los Gatos” redirects here. For the Argentine rock band, see Los Gatos (band). Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 28,592 at the 2000 census. . 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. For more information, please contact MySoftware at 2197 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303-3219. Phone (650) 473-3600. Web: www.mysoftware.com. For more information on mailing products, www.mailtools.com. CONTACT: THE TERPIN GROUP Kristen Taglia/Kareen Marshall, 650/344-4944 ktaglia@terpin.com kmarshall@terpin.com |
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