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Date: 29 Jun 2006
From:kmarsh at novodynamics.com
Subject:NovoDynamics Arabic OCR sale

To celebrate its new research partnership with Bibliotheca  
Alexandrina (see the press release below), NovoDynamics is offering  
special pricing on its VERUS Standard product, the most accurate  
Middle Eastern language OCR in the world. Through June 30, 2006,  
customers can purchase VERUS Standard for $1,050.00 (a 30% discount).  
During the following month of July, customers will be able to  
purchase VERUS Standard for $1,200.00 (a 20% discount). If you are  
interested in purchasing VERUS Standard or would like additional  
information about its advanced capabilities, please email me at your  
earliest convenience or download our VERUS product sheet at http:// 
www.novodynamics.com/resources/index.html?qs=item3---/index.html.

Sincerely,

Kristin Marsh
NovoDynamics Sales
(734) 205-9112
kmarsh at novodynamics.com

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NovoDynamics and Bibliotheca Alexandrina Sign Research Partnership  
Agreement

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 24 /PRNewswire/

NovoDynamics, Inc., an Advanced Image Discovery Company and the  
creator of the world's most advanced Arabic language optical  
character recognition (OCR) solution, announced today a research  
partnership with Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the premier Library of  
Alexandria, Egypt, and a leader in library reference digitization.  
The mission of Bibliotheca Alexandrina is to be a center of  
excellence in the production and dissemination of knowledge. In line  
with this mission, the organization is taking serious steps towards  
building a universal digital library. A key challenge in digitizing  
its library is the conversion of its degraded Middle Eastern  
references into searchable computer text. In order to perform the  
conversion efficiently, Bibliotheca Alexandrina evaluated several  
computer software products that perform Arabic OCR. After completing  
its analysis, Bibliotheca Alexandrina selected NovoDynamics' VERUS  
Professional product as one of its digitization solutions. "We  
performed i
  nitial comparison tests between multiple OCR products to determine  
which one offered the highest recognition accuracy and we were very  
impressed with VERUS' performance and NovoDynamics' drive for product  
excellence," stated Noha Adly, Bibliotheca Alexandrina's ICT and ISIS  
(International School of Information Sciences) Director.

Based on NovoDynamics' superior technology and Bibliotheca  
Alexandrina's significant expertise in library digitization, the two  
organizations established a research partnership in order to advance  
NovoDynamics' commercial products. According to David Rock, President  
and CEO of NovoDynamics, "We are honored to be selected by the  
foremost library in the Middle East to accomplish the Library's goal  
of digitizing its historical collection of Middle Eastern language  
texts. We are excited about the opportunity to collaboratively work  
with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to create exciting solutions for library  
digitization, document management, and document exploitation markets."

NovoDynamics offers both Standard and Professional editions of VERUS.  
VERUS Standard provides recognition support for Arabic, Farsi  
(Persian), Dari, and Pashto languages, including embedded English and  
French text; automatic language and font detection; the ability to  
view both original and cleaned versions of a page; and an integrated  
spell checker for fast text verification. In addition to VERUS  
Standard features, VERUS Professional offers an application  
programming interface (API); distinguishes handwritten from machine  
printed pages; allows document images and their extracted text to be  
exported as PDF with hidden text files; and provides special plug-in  
technology that allows third-party machine translation products to be  
seamlessly integrated into the VERUS Professional environment.

About NovoDynamics

NovoDynamics, located in Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A., is a leading supplier  
of image discovery software solutions and services. For more  
information, please visit http://www.novodynamics.com.

About Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina was inaugurated in 2002 to recapture  
the spirit of the ancient Library of Alexandria. The new Library and  
its affiliated research centers are devoted to using the newest  
technology to preserve the past and to promote access to the products  
of the human intellect. It is committed to work with partners all  
over the world, and is a center for intercultural dialogue, learning  
and understanding. For more information, please visit http:// 
www.bibalex.org.

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