Open Archive Systems, Inc. Announces echive^™
Electronic Archive Solutions

Windham, NH; October 28, 1999 – Open Archive Systems, Inc., a leading provider of integrated solutions for the document management industry, is proud to announce the release of echive^™ - a series of electronic archive management software products. The new echive products bring your active and legacy documents and drawing archives closer to your desktop or network environment allowing visual data organization with virtually instantaneous document search and retrieval.

The echive Series is comprised of three components. With seamless integration, users can select which products meet their specific needs.

• echive Organizer provides the ability to quickly capture property data from files and arrange electronic archives into Microsoft Access^TM compatible database files. It incorporates full-content indexing and searching of CAD, existing Microsoft Office^TM files and scanned documents using the Open Archive SurroundSearch™ Engine.
• echive Explorer is the client-side application allowing users to search, retrieve, view and print documents stored within a predefined echive Organizer database.
• echive Capture adds the ability to scan office documents using ISIS and Twain drivers for simple incorporation into an echive Organizer database. Built-in OCR/ICR text recognition indexes the scanned archives into the SurroundSearch engine.

echive indexes the entire contents of scanned, office and CAD files such as TIFF, CALS and Adobe .PDF files. Then the Open Archive SurroundSearch Engine can conduct full content searching without ever opening the source files. echive Organizer is also capable of searching the text contents of AutoCAD and Microstation drawing files. After selecting a document, it can be viewed, printed or launched into its authoring tool.

echive file support includes large and small format scanned images, AutoCAD^®, Microstation^®, plot, Microsoft Office^TM, PDF, HTML and more. Every file type can be stored, indexed and managed in one simple and consistent environment. The complete architecture of echive is designed to be Web-enabled. The upcoming release of echive Publisher will provide the ability to publish to the Web or CD/DVD media.

About Open Archive Systems, Inc.:

Open Archive Systems, based in Windham, NH, has been providing consulting services, product sales and training in the document management market since 1994. Open Archive Systems is committed to providing functional solutions to the Electronic Document Archiving and Management industry.

For more information, please contact Open Archive Systems at 603-421-1900 or send us an email at info@openarchive.com