NISCAN Page Proves to be a Versatile Product

CARROLLTON, Texas (May 24,1993). NISCA Incorporated, developer of the first
true gray scale hand held scanner, announces that the new NISCAN Page
portable full-page scanner has proven to be a very versatile product. Page
has only been available for 2 months and already has users in diversified
industries. "Page is definitely not just an imaging or desktop publishing
tool." says Tai Nakamura, President of NISCA Incorporated.

NISCAN Page, which retails for $799.00, has impressive image quality and
resolution that is comparable to most 8-bit flat bed scanners, but it is
Page's portability, connectability, and ease of use that has made it so
popular with users. Law firms use Page to scan and fax documents from
courthouses. Users in the petroleum industry use Page to scan well logs in
the oil field. Sales professionals take Page to client's offices and scan
information into their notebook computers to be edited and reformatted for
proposals and presentations. According to Mr. Nakamural "The most exotic
use for Page that we have seen has been a major scientific research
organization using Page on the African plains in their efforts to identify
and track elephants."

NISCAN Page is battery powered and requires no interface board. It simply
plugs into the parallel printer port. NISCAN Page comes equipped with a
rechargeable battery and an A/C adapter. The A/C adapter can be used to
power the NISCAN Page and recharge the battery. The battery has a long
life of 30 full page scans and can be recharged while the scanner is in
use. NISCAN Page can scan in two modes, sheet-fed and hand-guided. In
sheet-fed mode, NISCAN Page can scan documents from business card size to
legal size (8-1/2"x14"). Users who need to scan originals that cannot be
put through a sheet fed device, such as books or catalogs, simply snap off
the base plate to convert NISCAN Page to hand-guided mode. In hand-guided
mode, the scan width is still 8-1/2",. but the length can be up to 75". In
either mode, NISCAN Page has a maximum resolution of 400 dpi, 32
brightness and contract settings and creates a crisp clear image that is
comparable to most desktop flatbed true gray scale scanners.

NISCAN Page comes with its own exclusive software that includes OCR, image
editing, and fax-on-the-fly capabilities called Words&Pictures.
Words&Pictures reads text from 6 to 36 point size and saves in all popular
Windows-based program file formats. Column selection and merge region
icons allow the user to scan single column (business reports) and multiple
column (newspaper and magazines) originals without a lot of set-up time.
The OCR feature lets the user scan printed text directly into
Windows-based word processors, spreadsheets, desktop publishers, or any
other Windows-based application. Words&Pictures provides full-featured
image editing that includes rotate, flip, reverse, cut, paste, skew
correction, resize and many more. TIFF(compressed and uncompressed), PCX
and BMP graphic file formats are supported.

NISCAN Page Words&Pictures' versatile fax-on-the-fly capability allows the
user to fax the image or text that is being scanned. The user simply loads
the document into the scanner and clicks the FAX button. The fax is sent
directly to the user's Windows compatible fax modem. It should be noted
that a fax modem and Windows-based fax software are required and not
included with NISCAN Page.

NISCAN Page includes a TWAIN Source that gives the user compatibility with
most other image and OCR software packages available for Windows. As with
previous NISCA products, a Scanner Application Program Interface (SAPI)
driver that allows the scanner to be used with most popular image and OCR
applications for DOS is also available.

NISCA Incorporated is a wholly owned subsidiary of NISCA Corporation of
Tokyo, Japan, a manufacturer of optical, mechanical, and electronic
products for may of the world's leading names in today's electronics such
as Cannon, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Hitachi, Epson, Casio, Minolta, Sharp, Sanyo,
and Nikon to name a few.

NISCA Inc, 1919 OLD DENTON RD, SUITE 104, CARROLLTON, TX 75006
214-242-9696;   FACSIMILE: 214-245-0942

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