NovoDynamics Launches VERUS™ at GITEX

September 24, 2005
Ann Arbor, MI

NovoDynamics, Inc., announced today that the company is launching VERUS, its advanced Arabic OCR solution, at Gitex 2005 in Dubai. The company will be hosted by ForeFront Technologies at booth E3-4.

NovoDynamics' technology is already the preferred software solution for governments that need to process large volumes of Arabic, Dari, Farsi/Persian, or Pashto documents. NovoDynamics' OCR solutions allow customers to obtain high accuracy results, even on yellowed pages, documents with stains, and smudged faxes. With its release of VERUS, NovoDynamics makes this powerful technology available to commercial users that require an OCR technology to improve their efficiency and profitability.

The demand for Arabic OCR technology has been rapidly growing during the last several years. However, prior to the capabilities of VERUS, the key challenge for customers has been the inability to accurately extract text from "real world" documents. VERUS'™ page clean up technology delivers significant performance advantages over competitive products. In addition to high accuracy extraction, customers also need the ability to efficiently process documents that contain a variety of fonts, languages, and page layouts. VERUS'™ automatic document detection capabilities allow customers to perform large document processing tasks with little or no human intervention.

"We are very excited to be launching VERUS™ at GITEX," said David Rock, President and CEO or NovoDynamics. GITEX attendees are known for their technology expertise and we are confident that they will be very impressed with VERUS'™ features." NovoDynamics is being hosted at booth #E3-1 at Gitex by ForeFront Technologies, the premiere distributor of document management and imaging solutions in the Middle East. "We are honored to have to opportunity to be featured at ForeFront Technologies booth," added Mr. Rock.

VERUS™ offers automatic detection and clean up of degraded and skewed documents as well as document sorting based on language identification. VERUS™ Professional features the ability to automatically separate machine-printed and handwritten pages, provides an application programming interface (API) for third-party integration, and allows customers to export PDF files with hidden text output.

NovoDynamics, an Advanced Image Discovery Company, is a leading supplier of unique software products for converting Middle Eastern language printed documents into computerized text. NovoDynamics' scientists leveraged decades of experience in data mining, pattern recognition, and image processing to create breakthrough products that can accurately extract text from "real world" documents, including smudged faxes, poor quality photocopies, and documents with stains. In recent third-party tests using degraded documents, NovoDynamics' products have delivered significant performance advantages over competitive products.

NovoDynamics, an In-Q-Tel portfolio company located in Ann Arbor, MI, provides image discovery software products and services to commercial and government customers. For more information, please visit www.novodynamics.com.