Dateline: October 22, 1997

Documentum (Pleasanton, CA, http://www.documentum.com) posts Q3 '97 financial results: revenue up 63% from Q3 '96 to $19.7 million; net income up 43% from Q3 '96 to $2 million

Universal Document Management Systems (UDMS, Cincinnati, OH, http://www.udms.com) announces IPO, files for 2.6 million shares of common stock

Howtek (Hudson, NH, http://www.howtek.com) reports Q3 '97 revenue of $2,372,000, up 18% from Q3 '96; net loss of $603,000 compares with a loss of $1,750,000 in Q3 '96

Standard Register (Dayton, OH, http://www.stdreg.com) and LanVision (Cincinnati, OH, http://www.lanvision.com) sign agreement to co-market their imaging, workflow and electronic forms solutions to the healthcare industry

Bell & Howell (Arlington Heights, IL, http://www.bellhowell.com) reports Q3 '97 net sales of $211.7 million, down 3% from Q3 '96; net earnings of $6.5 compare with $4.8 million in Q3 '96

Tomahawk II (San Diego, CA, http://www.tomahawk.com) acquires document scanning and conversion company Image Management Systems (Chicago, IL)

Ricoh Canada (Toronto, Ontario, http://www.ricoh.ca) acquires Avant (http://www.aiim.com) subsidiary JIT Demand Print, forming new document outsourcing division Ricoh Document Management

NewSoft (Fremont, CA, http://www.newsoftinc.com) unveils the Presto OCR Pro 3.0 recognition application, with a 99.98% accuracy

InSystems (Markham, Ontario, http://www.insystems.com) signs agreement to embed Open Text's (Waterloo, Ontario, http://www.opentext.com) Livelink Intranet in its Mosaic document assembly solution

Canon (Lake Success, NY, http://www.canon.com) introduces the CD 4046 Digital Document Recorder, with 6-inch color display, Write/Read CD-Recordable drive and document scanning engine

BTG (Fairfax, VA, http://www.btg.com) to integrate Imagination Software's (Silver Spring, MD, http://www.imaginationsoftware.com) IMAGinE FOIA technology with its TeraSEARCH document archival and search applications suite