Dateline: September 18, 1997

Gtess (Dallas, TX, http://www.gtess.com) to debut the NetperForm automated forms processing system for the Internet, intranet, extranet and LANs at KMExpo

Xerox Professional Document Services (McLean, VA, http://www.xerox.com/xpds) signs agreement with Optika (Colorado Springs, CO, http://www.optika.com) to integrate the FilePower imaging, workflow and COLD product suite with XPDS' consulting practices

Logitech (Fremont, CA, http://www.logitech.com) unveils the FreeScan compact multipurpose scanner with three scanning modes and detachable scanner head

Perspecta (San Francisco, CA, http://www.perspecta.com) signs agreement to incorporate Excalibur's (Vienna VA, http://www.excalib.com) Internet Spider web crawler with its SmartContent navigational and online analysis software

Caere (Los Gatos, CA, http://www.caere.com) releases Version 8.0 of its OmniPage Pro OCR software, boasting the highest level of desktop OCR accuracy available

Adobe (San Jose, CA, http://www.adobe.com) acquires Digidox (Grand Rapids, MI, http://www.digidox.com), a developer of Acrobat-based authoring tools and parallel publishing services

ImageSoft (Maitland, FL, http://www.imagesoft.com) selected to provide its ImageBanc, Image Library and CD-ROM distribution solutions for Regions Bank (Birmingham, AL)

IBM Printing Systems Company (Boulder, CO, http://www.printers.ibm.com) unveils a new version of its InfoPrint Manager digital printing solution for commercial and enterprise printing applications