IRIS to Supply OCR Software for HP LaserJet 3100 Monochrome Printer-Fax-Copier-Scanner

Business Wire, March 16, 1998

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1998--Image Recognition Integrated Systems (IRIS) announced Monday that it has signed a licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company to integrate its innovative multi-lingual optical character recognition (OCR) software into the HP LaserJet 3100 monochrome printer-fax-copier-scanner.

The announcement was made by Pierre DeMuelenaere, president of Belgium-based IRIS, the leading OCR software developer in Europe.

Readiris 3.95, the recent upgrade of the firm's popular OCR software, was selected as the most appropriate for HP's versatile new "all-in-one" product. The HP LaserJet 3100 printer-fax-copier-scanner is expected to sell for $699 (U.S. street price).

"We're pleased to be partnering with HP on this exciting new product," said DeMuelenaere. "This OCR software is highly regarded throughout Europe and now it will have considerable distribution in the United States. IRIS appreciates the confidence HP has shown and we look forward to a long an mutually beneficial relationship."

This new version of Readiris recognizes 32 languages, including American English, Brazilian, British English, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Other features of this software include:

-- Improved accuracy for touching or broken characters, degraded

characters, faxes and dot matrix documents -- Flexible media handling for scanning everything from business

cards to legal-size documents -- Ability to recognize two different alphabets on the same document -- Ability to automatically reconstruct the layout of the original

document, including columns -- Ability to correct OCR errors (degraded characters, faxes, etc.).

The system will stop on the problem and display the image of the

symbol to the users, who can make the correction. The results of

the training can be saved -- Table reading

IRIS is a Belgium-based company that was founded in 1987. It specializes in developing products in the fields of imaging, optical character recognition, and document management. In addition to Readiris, the firm is also the developer of:

-- The IRISPen Executive: A highlighter-sized OCR device with bar

code and text-to-speech module -- The IRISPen Translator: Software which translates text printed in

foreign languages. Bi-directional software available in

English-French, English-German, English-Italian, English-Spanish.

An English-Japanese version is also available. -- Cardiris: Business card scanning software

ReadIRIS 3.95 is available through:

I.R.I.S. Inc.

1600 N.W. Boca Raton Boulevard, Suite No. 20

Boca Raton, Florida 33432

Telephone: 800/447-4744 561/395-7831

Web site: www.IRISUSA.com

Fax: 561/347-6267

CONTACT: David Reeves or Kelley Derynda, 561/391-8717