Captovation Releases Captovation Capture 5.0; Release Marks New Product Name and Major Enhancements.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Captovation, a leading provider of production and distributed document capture software, released today version 5.0 of their flagship product, Captovation Capture. Product and user-interface enhancements have been added to all seven Captovation Capture components giving customers the ability to further streamline the document capture process.

Formerly known as eCapture, Captovation Capture is a modular system that can capture both paper and electronic documents for use within an electronic document management (EDMS) or similar system. Consisting of seven modules, the product offers functionality for production-level scanning and indexing, browser-based capture, check capture, as well as automated recognition, universal document importing, and document committing.

Features for Captovation Import Server were added to satisfy the needs of today's companies who have become increasingly concerned with managing their content, government compliance, and document retention periods. Companies today realize that future versions of the program that created an electronic document may not support older file formats, or that the program itself may no longer exist. By converting electronic documents and emails into image format, companies ensure that their documents are properly represented, can be viewed well into the future, as well as reduce the chances of document tampering.

Import Server can import and convert images and other electronic documents (PDF, MS-Word, MS-Excel, HTML, text, etc.) into Captovation Capture. The imported images can be converted into either tagged image file format (TIFF) or portable document format (PDF), which provides adequate long-term storage options for most companies. Additionally, Import Server includes an email provider to allow companies to incorporate email transactions into their overall document management and business workflow strategy. For example, companies can configure Import Server so that it monitors the inbox where company invoices are received. It will then import the email and associated attachments - in this case an invoice - into Captovation Capture. In addition, email fields such as: To, From, Subject, and Date can be directly mapped to document index fields. After the documents have been indexed, they are committed (archived) into the company's EDMS. Once committed, the invoice can be routed through the company's appropriate workflow process for invoice approval. Import Server offers importing support for black and white, grayscale, and color images, and works with any POP3 (post office protocol) or IMAP (internet message access protocol) compliant email server.

Captovation(R) Capture 5.0 includes new document output formats for multiple-page TIFF, image-only PDF's, and searchable PDF's. Unlike competitive capture solutions, there are no image output volume restrictions with Captovation Capture. The product's architecture has also been enhanced to allow documents to be committed into multiple systems simultaneously and in different document formats.

The award-winning, Captovation Web Capture component is a browser-based document scanning and indexing solution that has received many new enhancements. It now includes the ability to link to an external database and retrieve additional index information. For example, a user can quickly search a corporate database by customer name to retrieve and auto-populate a customer account number field. If more than one record is found during this search, Web Capture will display a list and enable the user to select the correct database record. The Web Capture Server performs all database searching centrally; thereby, providing a firewall friendly and efficient method for the Web Capture Client to search corporate databases across the Internet. In addition, the administrator program for Web Capture now runs as a JAVA applet within a web browser. This new, intuitive interface provides administrators with an easy method to create and configure scanning profiles for the Web Capture client sites.

Captovation Recognition Server helps companies automate the indexing process by reading and extracting bar code data from documents and populating that data into index fields. With Captovation Capture 5.0, additional bar code support has been added. The following are new one-dimensional supported barcodes: UCC\EAN-128, Airline (IATA) 2/5, Code 32, Datalogic 2/5, Industrial 2/5, Matrix 2/5, Postnet / Planet. In addition to PDF 417, Recognition Server offers two-dimensional bar code support for Datamatrix as well.

Additional features added to Captovation Capture include the ability for pick-lists to link to a corporate database. Pick-lists are pre-defined values that appear in a drop-down list within an index field. With this new feature, these pick-list values can all be linked and retrieved from a corporate database. For example, users can create a customer name pick-list by retrieving all customer names from an accounting database. In addition, pick-list fields can be associated with each other in a parent/child relationship; for example, the makes and models of cars. Pick-lists can also be configured in a multi-level relationship as well (e.g., great grand parents, grand parents, parents, and children). Finally, image thumbnail support is now available for both Captovation Scan and Index. Thumbnails are used to aid in the quality assurance process and for easily reordering pages within a batch.

"All of us at Captovation are very excited and proud of the release of Captovation Capture 5.0. Many of the enhancements in this release reflect our customer-driven focus on product marketing," said Ken Peterka, President & CEO of Captovation, Inc. "In addition, we continue to innovate our software with new ideas which anticipate demand within the content management industry. Above all, our focus is to produce high-quality, world-class software that surpasses customer expectations."

Captovation will be demonstrating the entire suite of Captovation Capture modules in booth number 94 at the 2005 AIIM Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia from May 17th through May 19th.

About Captovation

Captovation, Inc. is a privately held company established in 1994, which specializes in the design and development of document capture products for the electronic document management industry. Our software products and custom integration services provide paper-intensive organizations with the ability to streamline and tailor the document capture process to meet their needs. Captovation Capture, the company's flagship product, is a suite of document capture modules. The software modules include: Scan (production-level scanning), Index (production-level indexing), Web Capture (distributed, web-based capture), Check Capture (check image and MICR capture), Recognition Server (automated document indexing), Import Server (universal document importing), and Commit Server (efficient and reliable archiving). Captovation Capture is sold through Captovation certified resellers. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.captovation.com.