New Oce Security Card Reader Supports e-Passports.

LAS VEGAS -- Oce (Nasdaq:OCENY) today demonstrated the latest e-passport required security feature in conjunction with its successful Oce ID-Star CSR (Color Security Reader) 4054. This 3rd generation card reader, which scans passports, visas and other secure travel documents in color, includes the latest advancements for verifying the authenticity of documents and detecting forgeries, including ultraviolet light, infrared, and security laminate reading. Now Oce introduces it's latest technological invention with the new e-Passport Option, which makes the Oce ID-Star CSR support all new security requirements in the field of biometrics according to the latest ICAO standards and recommendations. Oce's Document Technologies unit markets this solution worldwide.

The U.S. government requires some countries to add biometric identification to passports using RFID tags for their citizens to visit without a visa. U.S. diplomats and State Department employees are in the process of being issued new U.S. RFID passports. Other citizens will receive them when applying for new passports starting in the spring. The State Department plans to produce more than 1 million e-Passports by the end of 2005. By 2006, it expects all new passports to feature the special microchips, according to Angela Aggeler, a spokeswoman for the agency's Bureau of Consular Affairs. E-Passports and other travel documents containing RFID chips (as defined by the ICAO standard) will become compulsory worldwide in all major countries within the next 3-5 years.

The new Oce ID-Star CSR ePassport Option adds a high speed RFID-reader module. The module is completely integrated with the Oce ID Star 4054 CSR and will be sold as an optional upgrade for the standard reader. It is designed to capture all biometrical information stored on a chip in the upcoming new generation of e-Passports and other travel documents. The RFID module is integrated seamlessly into the ID Star CSR so that reading data from the chip in the ID document under inspection takes place in parallel with the capture of images from the personal-data page of the ID document. This means that the document only has to be laid on the reader once for both the optical and the electronic reading and data capture processes to be performed. The RFID read function thus does not impair the reader's ergonomic 'one motion usage' in practice. The application also helps ascertain that the data of both the optical and the RFID readings originate from the same document.

To facilitate integration with the customer's software applications, functions are summarized and made available in libraries. This enables the reader to be addressed easily, as well as providing straightforward accessing of document data. These libraries can be integrated in Windows 2000 and Windows XP applications.

As the international bodies responsible for standardisation of electronic ID documents (in particular ICAO) have not yet finalized their definitions of standards, it is not now possible to specify the entire performance scope of the reader with the RFID module. The exact scope of functions will be configured according to the relevant bodies' respective definitions (ICAO / ISO, and others, for instance the EU) and, where needed, also project- and country-specific. The e-Passport Option is planned to ship in Q3 2005.

More than 2,000 Oce ID Star devices are in operation worldwide, deployed for mission critical projects in border control, airports, embassies, consulates and passport authorities. The Oce ID Star is used to help manage country border controls in over 15 countries including: Argentina, Austria, Brunei, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Turkey and Vietnam. It is also used for quality assurance of consulate issued documents in Hungary, Switzerland and the Ukraine.

About Oce Document Technologies

The Oce Document Technologies group (www.odt-oce.com) is responsible for the sales and marketing of Oce RecoStar, Oce RecoStar Professional, and Oce AEG Recognition software products; and Oce DOKuStar, an Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) product suite. As the recognized leaders in machine print and handprint (OCR and ICR) recognition software for forms processing applications, Oce RecoStar and Oce AEG Recognition together command a significant 60% market share.

About Oce

Oce is a leading provider of digital document management technology and services. The company's solutions are based on Oce's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Oce digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Oce also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Netherlands-based Oce N.V. (Nasdaq:OCENY), with a workforce of around 21,500 people and 2004 revenues of $3.3 billion, maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Japan. Oce's North American headquarters is located in Chicago with major business units in Chicago; New York City; Boca Raton, Fla.; Salt Lake City; Coventry, R.I.; and Vancouver, British Columbia. North American revenues were $1.2 billion for fiscal 2004, and employment is currently 8,100. For more information about Oce, visit www.oceusa.com. Outside the U.S., consult www.oce.com.

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