XEROX SHIPS TEXTBRIDGE PRO 3.0 FOR WINDOWS; REDEFINES OCR WITH TRUE
DOCUMENT RECOGNITION AND EXTENSIVE CROSS-APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Breakthrough Product Delivers Unmatched Accuracy, Ease of Use, and Speed
for Less than $250--Half the Price of Competitive OCR Products

Peabody, Mass., June 5, 1995--Xerox today announced the availability of
TextBridge Professional Edition 3.0 for Windows, its new flagship Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) software product targeted for mainstream OCR
desktop use. Based on true document recognition and a highly simplified
usage model, TextBridge Pro represents a fundamental shift in OCR
technology. For the first time ever, mainstream desktop users can quickly
and easily reproduce the original compound document layout with fully
editable text, tables, and pictures, as well as scan, recognize, and fully
proof documents--all without ever leaving their favorite word processing
application.

TextBridge Pro features Xerox's new DocuRT (Document Recognition
Technology) OCR engine, which delivers unmatched accuracy, speed, and ease
of use. With an expected street price of less than $250 (U.S.), TextBridge
Pro is half the price of competitive OCR products.

"It's the advanced features combined with the application integration that
make TextBridge Pro a complete solution," said George Parker, Vice
President, Creative Director, Young and Rubicam. "Now I can scan documents
from my choice of word processing applications while taking advantage of
all the powerful OCR editing and recomposition tools inherent in
TextBridge Pro. TextBridge Pro is not anything like the OCR products
available today; it's truly a next-generation OCR product, the best
available in terms of accuracy, editability, ease of use, and native
power."

"We've used every major OCR package available on the market, and no other
package can bring in multi-column text, or spreadsheets with the accuracy
and speed that TextBridge Pro does," said Creaghan Harry, President,
Hi-Tech Marketing. "With TextBridge Pro, I'm now able to take the page
composition from the paper and replicate it into an editable format on my
computer, no matter how complex the document. On every level, I've found
TextBridge Pro faster, easier to use, very intuitive, and far more
accurate than any product available in the marketplace today."

Breakthrough Document Recognition

Current OCR products on the market are built upon traditional "text-based"
recognition technology, and are ill-equipped to reproduce compound
documents containing text, graphics, and tables. This has not only been an
impediment to better accuracy, but has also posed a major obstacle for
users wanting to recognize and manipulate data exactly as it appears on
the original document.

With the embedded DocuRT OCR engine, TextBridge Pro reconstructs the
document as it was originally designed and delivers fully-editable,
multi-column text, tables, and graphics. This "document-based" recognition
results in unprecedented accuracy, and represents a major breakthrough in
OCR technology because competitive OCR products only provide a close
approximation of an original page layout by creating artificial text
"frames" during processing, which renders the page uneditable and unusable
beyond viewing.

Highly Accurate OCR

Xerox's DocuRT engine received top-tier honors for its conversion accuracy
and data throughput in the fourth annual test conducted by the Information
Science Research Institute (ISRI) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
According to the study, the rate at which the OCR engines accurately
converted binary scans of paper-based characters into electronic format
ranged from 94.51 percent for Xerox and 94.26 percent for Caere (on a
sample of standard-mode faxes) to 98.88 percent for Xerox and 98.97
percent for Caere (on a sample of newspaper pages). Xerox's highly
accurate conversion rate earned a first-tier ranking.

A Simpler Way To Do OCR

With TextBridge Pro, OCR is no longer a stand-alone product, but is
seamlessly integrated into the normal workflow of document creation and
manipulation. Instant Access OCR allows users easy access to TextBridge
Pro from their favorite desktop application, and the proprietary In-Place
Proofreader enables powerful proofing and editing--without ever leaving
the word processor. In addition, TextBridge Pro has a dynamic, word-based
training capability that lets users view, confirm, and quickly correct
difficult-to-recognize words. This critical feature allows for superior
accuracy, especially on degraded documents.

Increased Throughput

TextBridge Pro offers the fastest OCR throughput rate available, based on
independent industry tests. Throughput is a critical metric for evaluating
OCR packages because it measures the speed of the conversion while
penalizing for errors. TextBridge Pro addresses this issue by delivering
the fastest OCR conversion without compromising accuracy. In the fourth
annual test conducted by the Information Science Research Institute (ISRI)
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Xerox's OCR throughput was 100 to
300 percent faster than Caere's.

These breakthroughs in document recognition, accuracy, throughput, and ease
of use are complemented by the full range of features offered by
TextBridge Pro that enhance users' productivity:

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                                          Xerox             Caere
                                      TextBridge Pro     OmniPage Pro
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Format Retention with Editability          Yes               No
Cell Table Formatting with Editability     Yes               No
In-Place Proofreader                       Yes               No
Custom Proof                               Yes               No
Instant Access OCR                         Yes               No
OLE 2.0 Drag & Drop                        Yes               No
Interactive Word-Based Training            Yes               No
Lexifier                                   Yes               No
Smart Zones                                Yes               No
5 - 72 Point Recognition                   Yes               No
Clipboard Support                          Yes               No
Foreign Language Recognition               Yes               Yes
Batch Processing of TIFF Files             Yes               Yes
User Dictionary Support                    Yes               Yes
Deferred Processing                        Yes               Yes
Templates                                  Yes               Yes
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* Based on Caere product literature
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"TextBridge Pro is a very exciting new product for the OCR world," said
Kristy Holch, director of scanning market strategies for BIS Strategic
Decisions. "It introduces several technology breakthroughs, such as true
document recomposition with full-edibility and end-to-end application
integration. This product is seeking to become the first full-featured OCR
application with true mass-market appeal and strong brand recognition."

Pricing and Availability

TextBridge Professional Edition 3.0 is available immediately through
computer retail stores, superstores, and mail order catalogs, with an
expected street price of less than $250 (U.S.). Xerox is also offering a
special $199 competitive upgrade version of the product through the retail
channel for users of any other OCR products wishing to take advantage of
TextBridge Pro. For sales information, users can call 1-800-248-6550, ext.
3.

Xerox Corporation

Xerox Desktop Document Systems develops, markets and distributes systems
and software that capture and communicate documents at the desktop. These
systems and software products incorporate advanced Xerox technologies to
improve document quality and distribution, and are marketed through retail
and direct channels and OEM partnerships. The division is headquartered in
Palo Alto, Calif., and Peabody, Mass.

Xerox Corporation is a global enterprise serving the worldwide document
processing market. The company's document processing business develops,
manufactures, markets, services and finances a complete range of products
and services designed to make offices around the world more productive.

Xerox Corp
Desktop Document Systems
3400 Hillview Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94304
415-813-6800,  fax 415-813-6967

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