Scan-Optics Announces Order from Daticon

Business Wire, July 17, 2001

Business Editors

MANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2001

Scan-Optics, Inc. (OTC BB: SOCR), a leader in Information Capture and Customer Service Solutions for Government, Insurance, Order, Proxy, Test Scoring and other paper-intensive businesses, today announced that it received an order from Daticon, based in Gales Ferry, Connecticut, for ten Vision Series 8000 scanners. The scanners were shipped in the first half of 2001 and are already in operation.

A leader in document management services for litigation support, Daticon was a longtime customer of Photomatrix before Photomatrix was acquired by Scan-Optics in June 1999. Prior to this order, Daticon had approximately 35 Vision Series 8000 scanners in use, bringing the total to 45 scanners.

Doug Barrett, Executive Vice President of Daticon, stated, "We enjoy the image quality and durability of the Vision Series 8000 scanner, as well as the service and reliability we have come to count on from Scan-Optics over the years."

Richard C. Goyette, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Scan-Optics, stated, "We value our longstanding relationship with Daticon and are proud of their continuing confidence in our ability to provide them with reliable, high quality imaging solutions."

With corporate headquarters located in Gales Ferry, Connecticut, Daticon, Inc. provides industry-leading document management services for litigation through a powerful combination of innovative technology and its dedicated service professionals. Additional information is available at www.daticon.com. Scan-Optics, Inc., with headquarters in Manchester, Connecticut, is recognized internationally as an innovator and solution provider in the information management and imaging business. It designs, manufactures and services products and systems for character recognition, image processing and display, data capture, and data entry. Scan-Optics systems and software are marketed worldwide to commercial and government customers directly and through distributors. Through its Manufacturing Services Division, Scan-Optics also provides contract manufacturing services to customers, outsourcing the manufacturing of complex, electro-mechanical assemblies. The Company has sales and service offices located throughout the United States and abroad. Additional information is available at www.scanoptics.com.

Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" made under safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could materially affect future results. Among these risk factors are changes in general economic and business conditions in the United States and foreign markets, which impact capital investments by customers, the cyclical nature of funding within federal and state government agencies, further adverse changes in the Company's banking relationship, insufficient cash resources, increased competition from similar products, the implementation of other technologies which may provide alternative solutions, ability to complete projects in a timely manner, and other risk factors and cautionary statements listed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000.