OPTIKA IMAGING SYSTEMS AND SEAPORT IMAGING JOIN FORCES TO DEVELOP IMAGING
SOLUTION WITH REDUCED FILE SIZES

Solution Relieves Network Congestion, Saves on Media Storage Costs and
Decreases Retrieval Times

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO., February 20, 1995 -- Optika Imaging Systems, a
leading provider of document image, workflow and information management
solutions and Seaport Imaging, a developer and supplier of image
processing and document capture systems, have formed a strategic alliance
to bring to market imaging products with enhanced image quality and
reduced file sizes.

The two companies have teamed up to incorporate The Intelligent Filter from
Seaport into Optika's product line using Seaport's AutoPilot Developers
Toolkit. The resulting joint development effort, soon to be released as
Optika's FPenhance software module, will clean-up images for better
viewing while reducing file sizes up to 80 percent. This file size
reduction greatly decreases image retrieval times while alleviating
network congestion.

"As imaging competes for a piece of the network bandwidth pie with other
traffic-intensive applications, LANs and WANs are getting more and more
bogged down. The result is that it takes longer and longer to retrieve an
image. The higher the volume of images that are stored and retrieved the
more significant the problem," explained Ellen Rome, vice president of
marketing at Optika. "By incorporating Seaport's compression technology,
we will enable end-users to make ultra-fast storage and retrieval requests
without tying down the network."

According to Bill Lange, vice president of sales & marketing for Seaport,
storage media savings are another reason for incorporating compression
technology into imaging applications. "High-volume document imaging
environments that process 20,000 documents per day can receive tremendous
savings. The calculated savings in optical storage costs reduce the
payback period of this technology to less than five months for this size
application," he said.

FPenhance is the first of a series of products from the two companies. "The
inclusion of image compression technology is the first step to integrate
more functionality from Seaport that will make our imaging solutions more
efficient and our Business Solutions Partners more competitive," said
Rome.

Lange agreed, stating that Optika provides the industry's leading
client/server workflow and document management solutions. "We will
continue to work with Optika, helping to develop even more advanced
solutions that meet the needs of tomorrow's image information
requirements," stated Lange.

Seaport Imaging is a developer and supplier of ultra-fast, automatic,
bitonal image processing and document capture systems for the high-volume
electronic document image market. The company's subsystems provide
customers with major benefits such as accuracy for automatic indexing,
which minimizes labor costs for manual data input and improves
productivity through the reduction of image file sizes that enable faster
retrieval and display.

Headquarted in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Optika Imaging Systems is a
leading developer of client/server-based imaging, workflow and information
management software. Noted for its technology leadership in the
high-volume, transaction-processing environment and its large customer
base of imaging systems running on local area networks, the company's
installations have received significant industry recognition. Optika has
been awarded the 1994 BIS Silver Imaging Excellence, 1994 ImagingWorld
Silver Technology Innovator of the Year Finalist, 1993 BIS Gold, 1993
ImagingWorld Technology Innovator of the Year, 1993 BIS Silver Imaging
Excellence and 1992 ImagingWorld Leadership Awards.

Optika Imaging Systems Inc
5755 Mark Dabling Blvd, Ste 100
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
719-548-9800,  fax 719-531-7915,  Technical Support 719-531-9100

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