CALERA RECOGNITION SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES TRUESCAN SCANNER RECOGNITION CARD Santa Clara, CA -- Calera Recognition Systems, formerly Palantir Corporation, announced TrueScan, a scanner recognition card for PC/AT's and compatibles that provides the most accurate recognition available for desktop publications. Starting at just $2495, TrueScan sets a new price-performance standard for the personal computer and scanner markets. Referring to TrueScan as essentially a "printer in reverse," Calera President Stephen M. Dow said, "Just like a printer can take information from your PC and put it onto a page, TrueScan can take information from a page and put it directly into your PC. And it doesn't matter how complex your page is. The key is that TrueScan goes beyond character recognition to capture the structure of a page as well as text and graphics -- automatically. TrueScan finally makes scanning as easy as using a photocopier." TrueScan brings the high-performance recognition capabilities previously associated only with products costing over $15,000 to desktop publishing -- at desktop prices. This breakthrough is expected to fuel the growth of the scanner market by opening up new opportunities in existing application areas like desktop publishing and word processing, and developing areas such as spreadsheets and databases. TrueScan works with most desktop scanners and facsimile cards to provide accurate recognition at an affordable price. It puts complex business documents directly into popular applications like word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheet and graphics programs, and can also be used to create files for loading information into a database. With other technologies, scanners are focused primarily on just recognizing text. TrueScan also decolumnizes complex multi-column documents while recognizing and preserving tables, lists, paragraphs, centering, justification, indenting, bold, italics and underlining. Text and graphics are captured in a single pass through the scanner. TrueScan handles typewritten, typeset, laser, dot matrix and other computer printed documents. Scanned documents are placed directly into the formats supported by popular word processors, desktop publishing systems, spreadsheets, and databases. TrueScan comes in two models. The Model S processes pages at 75 characters per second and the Model E, 100 characters per second. A wide range of scanners are supported by both models, including: AST TurboScan, Canon IX-12, IX-12F, Datacopy Jet Reader Model 730, Dest PC Scan Plus, Dest PC Scan 1000, Dest PC Scan 2000, HP ScanJet, IBM 3117, Microtek MS/MSF-300C, Microtek MS-300A, Panasonic FX-RS505, and Princeton Graphics LS-300. Supported Facsimile cards include: GammaLink Gammafax, Spectrafax, The FaxCard, Datacopy MicroFax, AT&T Fax Connection, and other cards which support the TIFF and PCX image file formats. Virtually every commercial word processing program is directly supported. It also supports the Lotus (.WK1) format which is used by Lotus 1-2-3, Borland's Quattro, and Excel. TrueScan requires an IBM PC/AT, Compaq 286 or 100% compatibles and MS-DOS 3.1 or higher. A minimum of 512 Kb of RAM is required and the minimum acceptable hard disk size is 20 Mb. Both monochrome and color displays are supported. Calera Recognition Systems will make TrueScan available to end users through retail distribution channels. Beginning on September 19, TrueScan will be available in two models. Model S is priced at $2495 while the Model E is available for $3495. Calera Recognition Systems, Inc. is headquartered at 2500 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, California 95054. Telephone Laura Ness at (408) 986-8006.