VisionShape Acquires Image Based Software Tools Developer.ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 17, 1996--VisionShape today announced the acquisition, in a stock transaction, of DECOMP DECOMP Decompilation Techniques Workshop , an imaging tools vendor based in Yorba Linda Yorba Linda (yôr`bə lĭn`də), city (1990 pop. 52,422), Orange co., S Calif., in a region of citrus fruit; inc. 1967. The city has grown tremendously along with the southern California area; its population increased fivefold between , CA. DECOMP known for its royalty free imaging tools was founded in 1990 by Steven Selnick. Steven will join VisionShape as Vice-President of a new Imaging Component Division which will maintain the DECOMP name. Currently DECOMP markets four products - TIFF group/4 image compression Noun 1. image compression - the compression of graphics for storage or transmission compression - encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required ; image decompression; rapid image print; and display scale-to-gray. The mission of the new division according to Gie de Keyser, President of VisionShape, is to expand and build VisionShape's software business. "By creating a separate software division, we think that the high performance software tools developed by DECOMP and VisionShape will have the attention paid to them that is needed to make them extremely successful products." "Both companies have traditionally sold through integrators, resellers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and channels and we have many common customers", stated Dan Borrey, Vice-President of Sales & Marketing at VisionShape. "Our two companies have an installed base of several thousand accounts between them, which include most of the major document management vendors" he said. "We are now at a maturing stage in the document management market that requires more products from one vendor to be available. We believe that combining the two companies will allow us to leverage more volume for each company's products, and will enable us to expand our toolkits more effectively than either of us could alone." DECOMP's software, which provides reliable and high performance solutions for image decompression and display, is used by many companies developing commercial imaging applications, custom imaging solutions, and for in-house development. The decompression and viewing products are offered as a DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. , a VBX (Visual Basic EXtension) A component software technology from Microsoft that enabled a Visual Basic (Windows) program to add functionality by calling ready-made software modules. and a high level API for PowerBuilder, FoxPro and other High Level Development Languages. VisionShape's current software products include batch scanning software, image enhancement See image editing. and deskew, barcode recognition, and OMR (Optical Mark Reader) A scanner that reads marks on specific areas of the page. See mark sensing. OMR - Optical Mark Reader toolkits. For more information please contact Dan Borrey at VisionShape (800) 962-3585 or Steve Selnick at DECOMP (714) 282-2668. Information on VisionShape is available on the worldwide web at http://techexpo.com/www/visionshape. CONTACT: VisionShape Dan Borrey, 800/962-3585 or DECOMP Steve Selnick, 714/282-2668 or Harvey Spencer Associates Inc. 516/368-8393 |
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