Fujitsu Partners With Adobe to Ship Acrobat 5.0 With All Scanners

Business Wire, August 13, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2002

Partnership Makes Fujitsu First Imaging Vendor To Bundle Adobe's

Award-Winning Acrobat 5.0 Software With Its Entire "fi" Scanner Line

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA), a market leader in document imaging scanners, today announced a strategic partnership with Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE), the leader in network publishing, to bundle Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 5.0 software with all Fujitsu "fi" series scanners shipping within the U.S.

The addition of Acrobat 5.0 to Fujitsu's award-winning "fi" scanner product family allows users to convert any document to an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file, the defacto file format in many industries including government and business applications.

"This strategic partnership between Fujitsu and Adobe is important in that it brings together leading imaging technology and document publishing software which gives end users the ability to reliably and easily integrate scanned documents into their business environment," said Susan Moyse, analyst at InfoTrends Research Group, Inc. "Both companies have set the bar for the rest of their respective industries."

With Acrobat 5.0, customers can retain the exact look and feel of original documents while increasing the efficiency of business processes across their extended enterprise of customers and partners. Other benefits include:

-- The ability to create and deliver documents that can be printed, emailed, downloaded, and even delivered to mobile devices

-- The ability to view and manage documents on a variety of hardware platforms and software operating systems

-- Significantly enhanced security with 128-bit encryption password-protection and digital-signature features

-- Drastically accelerated and better-managed review cycles, with sticky notes, highlighting, and Web-based comment review options

"Fujitsu's bundling of its enterprise imaging solutions with our Acrobat 5.0 software further extends our reach in the Global 1000 and key vertical markets, and represents a marriage of two powerful business imaging tools that brings enormous benefit to both Fujitsu's and Adobe's customers" said Sean Conley, senior product manager, Adobe. "We're excited to bring the benefits of Acrobat 5.0 to Fujitsu's digital imaging customers and associating ourselves with yet another technology innovator."

"Fujitsu's strategic partnership with Adobe underscores our commitment to being the digital imaging industry's price-performance leader and to continually bring world-class solutions to our customers," said Victor Kan, director of product and channel marketing, imaging products, Fujitsu Computer Products of America. "The addition of Acrobat 5.0 to our entire scanner product family delivers a world of enhanced functionality, portability, and security to our customers, and will help them realize even greater value from their Fujitsu digital imaging platform."

Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is bundled with the entire Fujitsu "fi" scanner product family including, ScanPartner fi-4110CU, ScanPartner fi-4120C, ScanPartner fi-4220C, ScanPartner 93GX, fi-4340C, fi-4640S, M4097D series, fi-4750C, fi-4750L, M4099D series, and fi-4990C.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, high- reliability/performance computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts make Fujitsu uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the broadband Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5 trillion yen (about US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com/

About Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA) conducts engineering and marketing activities in San Jose, CA and sales operations throughout the United States. FCPA's current product and service offerings include scanners and scanner maintenance, hard disk drives, tape drives, and magneto-optical drives. FCPA is located at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134. For more information on becoming a member of the "One Capture Alliance", please log on to: www.reseller.fcpa.fujitsu.com. For more information about Fujitsu products and services, call us at 800-626-4686 or 408-432-6333 or use our Internet Web site at http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com.

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