OMNIPAGE PRO 6.0 RETAIL UPGRADE PRODUCT AVAILABLE CHAINWIDE AT BEST BUY

EXPANDED RESELLER CHANNELS HELP PUSH CAERE OCR TO MERISEL HOT LIST

LOS GATOS, Calif., April 23, 1996--Caere Corporation (NASDAQ:CAER), the
leading provider of optical character recognition (OCR) technology, and
Best Buy Co., Inc., a leading retailer of electronics and computer
equipment, today announced the availability of OmniPage Pro 6.0 Retail
Upgrade chainwide at Best Buy in mid-May. The manufacturer's suggested
retail price of OmniPage Pro 6.0 Retail Upgrade is $129.

"After testing the OmniPage Pro 6.0 retail upgrade in many of our stores
and evaluating its turns and popularity with our customers, we have
expanded the availability to include all locations," said Eric Vincent,
Senior Buyer at Best Buy. "We are happy to provide our customers with
Caere's OCR software to allow scanner owners, to get the most out of their
scanning hardware investment." OmniPage Pro on Merisel HOT LIST

OmniPage Pro's expanded distribution in channels like Best Buy and other
key resellers helped to push OmniPage Pro onto Merisel's March HOT LIST.
Merisel's HOT LIST provides a listing of top selling products in a variety
of software and hardware categories including Retail Business Software,
where OmniPage Pro is number seven.

"With record sales' months with several of our key resellers, it is no
surprise that OmniPage Pro has landed on the Merisel HOT LIST," said Matt
Miller, Caere's director of channel marketing. "We are excited that OCR
software appears in the Business Software category with such best sellers
as WordPerfect, MS Word, and MS Office."

THE PRODUCT

OmniPage Pro 6.0 for Windows eliminates retyping of paper documents by
reading scanned and faxed pages and accurately converting them to editable
text for use in word processors, spreadsheets, hypertext markup language
(HTML) editors, and other text-based applications. The retail upgrade
provides an inexpensive way for most scanner users to step up to the
robust features and capabilities of OmniPage Pro 6.0 from the basic OCR
software included in their scanners.

The $129 (MSRP) upgrade price represents a $350 cost reduction over the
non-upgrade product. Users eligible for the upgrade include owners of
Caere's OmniPage Pro and WordScan products that were either purchased as
stand alone or bundled with most flatbed and edge-feed scanners.
Considering Caere's aggressive seeding strategy with the major scanner
manufacturers, most scanner owners are eligible for the upgrade, including
owners of many Hewlett-Packard, Visioneer, Microtek, Canon, Plustek, Umax,
Nikon, Agfa, Logitech, Relisys, and other scanners.

Enabling scanner owners to get the most out of their hardware investment,
the OmniPage Pro 6.0 retail upgrade offers all the capabilities of Caere's
bundled OCR products plus additional features for extended functionality.
These additional features include improved accuracy, an easy to use
AutoOCR Toolbar, a spell-check-like verification window, integration with
popular Windows applications, a 24-bit color graphic image editor, the
ability to "zone" and deskew scanned images, True Page technology to
retain original page formatting, and many others.

THE COMPANY

Founded in 1976, Caere Corporation, with U.S. headquarters in Los Gatos,
Calif. and European headquarters, Caere GmbH, in Munich, Germany, is the
worldwide leader in OCR technology and a leading developer of desktop form
sprocessing and document management products. Caere can be reached at
1-800-535-7226 x110.

BEST BUY

Best Buy is the nation's leading specialty retailer of name brand consumer
electronics, home office products, entertainment software and major
appliances. The Company, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year,
operates 252 locations in 29 states. Best Buy's common stock is traded on
the New York Stock Exchange, symbol BBY.
 
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