Omtool Announces Its ''OmReady'' Partner Program to Address the Growing Document Routing Market; AccuRoute Software Developer's Kit Available to Assist with Partner Product Integrations.

PHILADELPHIA -- On the heels of accepting the "Best Commercial Solution" award from Ricoh Corporation, Omtool, Ltd. (Nasdaq: OMTL), a leading provider of document routing products and services, today announced its "OmReady" Partner Program. Omtool also announced the availability of its Software Developer's Kit (SDK), which Omtool designed to assist in further market expansion and product integrations for the document routing market. E[acute accent]Omtool's OmReady Partner Program is designed to extend the reach of Omtool's award-winning AccuRoute solution to a broader audience. This partner program is specifically geared towards select technology and services companies who share Omtool's vision in delivering document routing and enterprise fax solutions to companies who face stringent compliance requirements and/or have paper intensive business processes. With a corporate strategic focus on the vertical markets of legal, financial and healthcare, Omtool's partners will be able to extend Omtool's reach from its specific vertical markets to the horizontal document routing market. E[acute accent]As evidence of its commitment to establishing partner relations, Omtool was recently named the recipient of the Outstanding HP Partner Award given out at HP's Worldwide Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) Solution Partner Conference. Omtool is a member of HP's Solution Business Partner (SBP) Program and received the award for delivering strong value and customer focus in helping HP address the distributed document management marketplace with a complete and comprehensive solution for document capture, process and distribution. E[acute accent]Through existing partner relationships, Omtool has strategic relationships with hardware manufacturers such as multi-function device providers and cost recovery solution providers. In addition, service and product providers participating in Omtool's strategic partner programs include facility management companies, independent software companies, document and content management vendors and litigation support systems vendors. A partial list of current partners includes:

E[acute accent]--Hardware Manufacturers: Cantata Technology Inc. (formerly Brooktrout Technology), HP, Ricoh Corporation and Xerox Corporation.

E[acute accent]--Cost Recovery Providers: Billback Systems, Control Systems, Inc., Equitrac Corporation, and nQueue, Inc.

E[acute accent]--Document and Content Management Systems: Accutrac Software, Inc., EMC Documentum, Hummingbird Ltd., Hyland Software, Inc., IBM Corporation, Interwoven, Inc., MDY, Microsoft Corporation, Refresh Software Corporation, Tower Software, and World Software

E[acute accent]--Facilities Management and Service Providers: Document Technologies, Inc., Merrill Corporation, Pitney Bowes Inc., Oce N.V., and Williams Lea Group

E[acute accent]--Value-Added Resellers: CPI, LAN Associates, Laser Networks, and WordTech 

E[acute accent]For those partners who wish to deliver highly-integrated product solutions, such as OEM partners, Omtool is making available an AccuRoute SDK which includes documentation, code samples and support provided directly by Omtool as part of its OmReady program. E[acute accent]"Cantata Technology, formerly known as Brooktrout, and Omtool have been partners for a number of years delivering comprehensive enterprise fax solutions to companies of all sizes, worldwide," said Greg Gies, market development manager of Cantata Technology. "Based on Omtool's continued commitment to the document routing (including enterprise fax) market and its ability to continually and consistently deliver high value solutions, we are encouraged to continue our partnership as we embark on the document routing market together." E[acute accent]Omtool is exhibiting its many product integrations and strategic business relationships this week at the AIIM conference in Philadelphia. Omtool is located at booth #1156. For more information about becoming an OmReady partner, please email Omtool at [e-mail].

E[acute accent]About AccuRoute

E[acute accent]AccuRoute(R), Omtool's flagship document capture, process and distribution platform, makes it easy to centralize valuable company information and distribute it to multiple systems simultaneously. Omtool's AccuRoute product allows users to work from either their desktops or the front panels of multi-function devices, helping them save time and remain productive as they integrate paper into today's business electronic workflows. Relying on AccuRoute, users can easily and efficiently handle mixed-mode (paper and electronic) documents in the course of their daily business processes. In addition, users are able simultaneously to distribute documents to multiple systems or recipients in multiple formats with a single action.

E[acute accent]About Omtool, Ltd.

E[acute accent]Omtool, Ltd. is a leading provider of document routing products and services that enable organizations to manage the capture, process and the delivery into electronic information systems of "mixed-mode" documents containing both paper and electronic documents. Omtool's enterprise-level products are used by organizations worldwide whose business processes frequently include paper-based documents and/or stringent compliance requirements that include secure handling, storage, integration and tracking of a variety of documents into corporate systems. Omtool's flagship product, AccuRoute, is a document capture, conversion and distribution platform that makes it easy to centralize valuable company information and distribute it to multiple systems simultaneously, all from users' desktops. Based in Andover, MA, with offices in the United Kingdom, Omtool can be contacted at 800-886-7845 or www.omtool.com.