Litéra and ABBYY USA Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Document Comparison Solution with Leading OCR Technology

Litéra and ABBYY USA Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Document Comparison Solution with Leading OCR Technology
03.30.2010

Document Lifecycle Management Leaders Offer Businesses and Legal Organizations Seamless and Secure Solution to Compare and Convert PDFs for Comprehensive Document Management

McLeansville, NC and Milpitas, Calif: Litéra^®, the leader in next-generation document lifecycle management (DLM), and ABBYY^®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced an agreement to integrate Litéra’s innovative Change-Pro^® document comparison solution with ABBYY’s leading optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Users can now compare versions of PDF documents in any language and convert them to Microsoft^® Word for further editing, completely integrating PDF documents into document lifecycle processes.

Litéra and ABBYY lead the industry in document lifecycle innovation with solutions especially applicable for today’s business and legal organizations. The pairing of their technologies enables customers to benefit from the highly accurate conversion and comparison of PDF files, making critical data secure and quickly available for integration into document workflow processes.

“The ability to manage and compare PDF files is essential to business, especially in the legal industry where accuracy and speed are imperative,” said Deepak Massand, CEO of Litéra. “By integrating our Change-Pro technology with ABBYY’s powerful OCR solution, we are delivering the flexibility and value our customers seek when it comes to the complete, end-to-end management of their vital documents, including PDF documents.”

“In the legal industry, secure information management is critical,” said Dean Tang, CEO at ABBYY USA. “Litéra’s Change-Pro document comparison solution, combined with our OCR technology, delivers the comprehensive document management that law offices and corporate counsel professionals need with the security they require to protect sensitive information and assure legal compliance.”

Change-Pro is a key component of the Litéra Desktop, which is designed specifically to meet the critical document production needs of all document-intensive businesses. The unique Litéra Desktop suite of applications represents the largest portfolio of document lifecycle solutions available in an integrated suite. Change-Pro enables document authors to compare Microsoft Word, PowerPoint^®, Excel^® as well as Corel^® WordPerfect^® and PDF documents in all languages with its optional OCR engine. Change-Pro's patent-pending technology also enables the comparison of embedded objects inside of compound documents. For more information please visit: www.Litera.com.

ABBYY’s award-winning FineReader Engine is a powerful and universal SDK that allows developers to integrate the most accurate OCR, ICR, OBR, OMR, document and PDF conversion technologies into their applications. For more information please visit: www.ABBYYUSA.com.

About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to automate time- and labor-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world’s top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

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408.727.0351 x770
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About Litéra

Litéra is the leader in next-generation document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for the critical document management needs of today’s business professionals. The Litéra Desktop represents the most comprehensive collection of DLM functionality available in an integrated suite, and includes products such as Innova^TM for document creation and automation, Litéra IDS^® for secure document collaboration, Change-Pro for document comparison, LDF^® for PDF control and management and Metadact^® for metadata cleansing. Learn more at www.Litera.com.

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Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Litéra's Change-Pro Compound Document Comparison Solution Selected by Three Leading Law Firms

Litéra’s Change-Pro Compound Document Comparison Solution Selected by Three Leading Law Firms
11.10.2009

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Crowell & Moring LLP, and Alston & Bird LLP have each licensed the company's Change-Pro^® TDC (Total Document Comparison) solution for compound document comparison.

McLeansville, NC: November 10, 2009 — Litéra^® Corp., the leader in document content lifecycle management (DCLM), has announced that its document comparison solution has been newly selected by three leading law firms, marking continued growth in customer adoption for Litéra solutions throughout the legal community. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (www.akingump.com), Crowell & Moring LLP (www.crowell.com) and Alston & Bird LLP (www.alston.com) have each licensed the company's Change-Pro^® TDC (Total Document Comparison) solution for compound document comparison.

“At Litéra we have a passion for delivering best of breed products that help companies fuel their intelligent document management productivity and match this technology innovation with world-class customer support for a customer experience that is second to none,” said Deepak Massand, CEO, Litéra. “We are gratified by the strong customer acceptance as law firms of all sizes fill their need for robust and comprehensive document content lifecycle management solutions.”

Akin Gump has licensed Change-Pro for use throughout its 13 global offices. Crowell & Moring, headquartered in Washington D.C., has licensed Change-Pro for its seven global offices, as well as its San Francisco office, expected to launch in December. Alston & Bird has licensed Change-Pro for its nine offices nationwide.

“At Akin Gump we always focus on building long-term relationships with our technology partners,” said Lorey Hoffman, CIO, Akin Gump. “It is important to us that our partners are thought and innovation leaders with verifiable records of delivering exceptional support. Litéra’s Change-Pro solution stood out in all of these key areas as the leading product backed by a superior organization.”

Change-Pro enables document authors to compare Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel as well as Corel WordPerfect and Scanned as well as True PDF files with its optional OCR engine. Change-Pro's patent-pending technology also enables the comparison of embedded objects inside of compound Word documents.

In addition, Akin Gump and Crowell & Moring have selected Metadact^®, Litéra’s metadata management and removal software to cleanse documents of compromising metadata prior to dissemination.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

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Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Microsystems DocXtoolsT Integrates with Litéra® Corp.'s Change-Pro® for Enhanced Document Comparison

Microsystems DocXtools™ Integrates with Litéra^® Corp.’S Change-Pro^® for Enhanced Document Comparison
09.01.2009

Downers Grove, IL – Microsystems, a leading document lifecycle solution provider for the legal and life sciences sectors, announces the integration of DocXtools™ with Litéra^® Corp.’s Change-Pro^® for enhanced legal document comparison.

“The integration of DocXtools and Change-Pro provides even greater value to Microsystems and Litéra clients,” said Deepak Massand, President, Litéra Corp. “DocXtools comparison intervention and Change-Pro empower document authors to quickly overcome comparison issues and generate a successful document comparison.”

DocXtools software is a collection of document assessment, cleanup and problem-solving tools that help document authors and support teams quality control documents, simplify document collaboration and reduce document clean-up and preparation time.

DocXtools comparison intervention prepares a document (for comparison) by eliminating characters that may create inconsistent results or be incompatible with comparison engines. For Office 2007, DocXtools offers comparison rendering set preferences, which enhance a user’s ability to save preferences and easily recall them. DocXtools allows a user to refine the workflow to eliminate extra steps involved in preparing and evaluating comparison documents and provides the user with the option to choose native Word, Litéra Change-Pro and other utilities to compare documents.

DocXtools is part of the Microsystems Knowledge Partnership suite of software-based solutions and expert support.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

About Microsystems

Founded in 1995, Microsystems is a global leader in document lifecycle software and services designed to improve the total document creation and quality control processes of document-intensive businesses. The company helps more than 650 client firms and companies increase document production efficiencies and reduce costs and risk. Microsystems is based near Chicago in Downers Grove, Illinois.

For more information, visit www.microsystems.com or call 630.598.1100.

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Natalie Whited
Marketing Manager
Microsystems
630.598.1100
nataliew@microsystems.com
www.microsystems.com

Litéra Corp to Showcase Its Leading Document Comparison Solutions at ILTA '09 in Washington, D.C.

Litéra Corp to Showcase Its Leading Document Comparison Solutions at ILTA '09 in Washington, D.C.

April 27, 2009

Litéra^® Corp. will present our robust and technologically advanced solutions for law firms at the annual conference for the International Legal Technology Association from August 23-27, 2009.

McLeansville, NC — Litéra^® Corp. (www.litera.com), a global leader in document comparison, PDF management and metadata removal, will showcase Change-Pro^® (www.change-pro.com), its leading-edge product for document comparison, along with its metadata and PDF management solutions, at ILTA ’09 on August 23-27 at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center near Washington, D.C.

At the conference, the premier event for ILTA decision-makers to come together to share their experiences as technology leaders and discuss how they best use leading technology solutions, Litéra’s associates will discuss and conduct demonstrations of Change-Pro. Change-Pro, a patent-pending Compound Document Comparison product, gives users the ability to compare the TOTAL document, including pinpointing changes in embedded objects (Excel, Visio, ChemDraw and SmartDraw) and images (jpg, bmp, tiff, png and more).

The company will additionally showcase Change-Pro for Excel. This patent-pending, standalone Excel comparison module compares all aspects of Excel workbooks, including values, hidden formulas and row and column changes.

Litéra Corp. will also feature its metadata removal product, Metadact®. Developed in collaboration with Softwise Corporation (www.softwise.net), Metadact removes risky metadata from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents in folders and emails. Finally, Litera will feature Litera Document Factory, its newest PDF management suite that enables users to manage all aspects of PDF documents, including filling and saving forms, redaction, splitting, appending, Bates numbering and the patent-pending content reflow.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. Is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Litéra Corp. will be at the Computer Forensics Show in Washington, D.C

Litéra Corp. will be at the Computer Forensics Show in Washington, D.C.

April 15, 2009

Litéra^® Corp. Will lecture on best practices for managing document risk and will showcase Change-Pro^®, its document comparison, PDF management and metadata removal solution, at this year’s Computer Forensics Show in Washington, D.C..

McLeansville, NC — Litéra^® Corp. (www.litera.com), a global leader in document comparison, PDF management and metadata removal, will be presenting a lecture on the ways to manage the risks of document metadata and changes made to documents with embedded objects at the Computer Forensics Show, April 28, in Washington, D.C. Ralph Weider, Litera's VP of Client Relations will lead the presentation, titled "What's in your document?"

In addition, associates from Litera will be presenting our document comparison, metadata management and PDF solutions for law firms and other organizations at Booth #607 at the conference's exhibit hall. For more information, please visit http://computerforensicshow.com.

About Litéra
Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

INSIGHT 2010 - The Future of Legal IT

INSIGHT 2010 - The Future of Legal IT
London, UK

Litéra^® associates will be attending INSIGHT 2010, ILTA's annual UK conference on legal technology. At INSIGHT 2010, leading technologists and business strategists from the U.K. and the U.S. who will share their expertise legal-related technology matters.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

ILTA 2010 - International Legal Technology Association

ILTA 2010 - International Legal Technology Association
New York, NY

Litéra^® associates will be attending ILTA 2010 in Nashville, TN, the premier conference for the International Legal Technology Association, which features key speakers from the legal technology industry and an exhibition hall that showcases all the major legal-based technology software and service companies.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Thomas Eggar and Coblentz, Patch, Duffy, and Bass Choose Change-Pro

Thomas Eggar and Coblentz, Patch, Duffy, and Bass Choose Change-Pro
2.12.2009

McLeansville, NC – U.K.-based Thomas Eggar and San Francisco’s Coblentz, Patch, Duffy, and Bass have licensed the Change-Pro^® TDC (Total Document Comparison) products, the flagship offerings from Litéra^® Corp. (www.litera.com). Change-Pro’s document comparison products enable these firms to mitigate the risks associated with document changes. The patent-pending products’ ability to compare the total document, including embedded objects and images, factored into the firms’ selection, reports Litéra Corp., which is located in North Carolina.

About Litéra
Litéra Corp. Is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information
Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

INSIGHT 2010 - The Future of Legal

INSIGHT 2010 - The Future of Legal

IT London, UK

Litéra^® associates will be attending INSIGHT 2010, ILTA's annual UK conference on legal technology. At INSIGHT 2010, leading technologists and business strategists from the U.K. and the U.S. who will share their expertise legal-related technology matters.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp

Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Legal Technology Association

Legal Technology Association
Dallas, TX

Bill Robertson, Litera's Executive Vice President of Client Development, will be speaking at the Legal Technology Association on April 14.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp

Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

LegalTech New York 2010

LegalTech New York 2010
New York, NY

Litéra^® associates will be presenting our document content lifecycle management solutions at LegalTech New York at the Hilton New York at Booth #513

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp

Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

ILTA Annual Conference 2009

ILTA Annual Conference 2009

Washington, DC

Associates with Litéra exhibited at the 2009 annual conference for the International Legal Technology Association.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp

Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Images Can Now Be Compared in Documents

Change-Pro announces support for additional embedded objects; Visio, .jpg, .tiff, ChemDraw and other images now supported.

McLeansville, NC: Litéra^® Corp., (www.litera.com) a leading provider of document comparison technology today announced the much anticipated capability of comparing images embedded in Microsoft Word documents.

Their Change-Pro product had previously leap-frogged the market with patent-pending, advanced red-lining capabilities, including the ability to compare Excel and Excel tables embedded in Word. At the LegalTech conference in New York today, Litéra announced that Change-Pro is now able to compare a variety of images such as Visio, ChemDraw, Smart Draw, .jpg, .png, and .tiff that are embedded in Word documents to determine what has been modified between two versions of a document. Change-Pro compares every pixel in an embedded picture and highlights any changes.

Law Firms find this capability useful for many different kinds of legal documents, including Corporate 10Ks and 10Qs, flow charts, organization charts, process maps, and patent documents.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information
Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

website: http://www.litera.com

Litera Corp. to Showcase Document Comparison Solutions at LegalTech New York 2009

Litera Corp. To Showcase Document Comparison Solutions at LegalTech New York 2009

McLeansville, NC — Litéra^® Corp. (www.litera.com), a global leader in document comparison, PDF management and metadata removal, will showcase Change-Pro^® (www.change-pro.com), its leading-edge product, at the Legal Tech New York conference on February 2-4, 2009, at New York City’s Hilton New York Hotel.

At the conference, a key gathering for legal technology professionals, Litéra Corp. will discuss and conduct demonstrations of Change-Pro. Change-Pro, a patent-pending Compound Document Comparison product, gives users the ability to compare the TOTAL document, including pinpointing changes in embedded objects (Excel, Visio, ChemDraw and Smart Draw) and images (jpg, bmp, tiff, png and more).

The company will additionally showcase Change-Pro for Excel. This patent-pending, standalone Excel comparison module compares all aspects of Excel workbooks, including values, hidden formulas and row and column changes.

Litéra Corp. will also feature its newest metadata removal product, Metadact®. Developed in collaboration with Softwise Corporation (www.softwise.net), Metadact removes risky metadata from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents in folders and emails.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Computer Forensics Show

Computer Forensics Show
Washington, DC

Associates with Litéra presented a lecture on the ways to manage the risks of document metadata and changes made to documents with embedded objects at the Computer Forensics Show, April 28, in Washington, D.C. Ralph Weider, Litéra's VP of Client Relations led the presentation, titled "What's in your document?" In addition, our team exhibited in the Expo hall of the conference, held April 27-29 at the Washington Convention Center.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

ILTA Annual Conference 2008

ILTA Annual Conference 2008
Grapevine, Texas

Associates from Litéra participated as exhibitors at the 2008 ILTA Annual Conference in Grapevine, Texas. The event was well attended and was an exceptional experience and chance to catch up with clients and meet new technology leaders.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

LegalTech NY 2008

LegalTech NY 2008

In February 2008,

we attended the LegalTech NY conference, where we met with a number of leading technology CFOs, managers and other associates, sharing an overview and details about Litéra's leading software solutions for law firms.

Contact Information

Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Three New Law Firms Choose Litéra's Change-Pro TDC Suite

Three New Law Firms Choose Litéra's Change-Pro TDC Suite

McLeansville, NC – Litéra^® Corp. has announced that three law firms – Cox Castle Nicholson; Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller; and Bradley Arant Rose & White – have licensed its Change-Pro^® TDC (Total Document Comparison) Suite. Change-Pro’s patent-pending, compound document comparison software compares Word, WordPerfect, PDF and PowerPoint documents, including compound Word documents with embedded objects and images. The Change-Pro for Excel module compares Excel worksheets, including value, formula, row and column changes.

Cox Castle and Bartko Zankel are both based in California; and Bradley Arant is headquartered in Alabama.
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About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit http://www.litera.com/ or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information
Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Two leading law firms choose Change-Pro's Total Document Comparison Solution

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Jones Day, two of the world's largest law firms, have chosen Change-Pro's TDC Suite to manage their firms' document comparison processes.

McLeansville, NC — Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Jones Day, two of the world's top ten law firms, have selected Litéra^® Corp’s Change-Pro^® Total Document Comparison Suite to manage document comparison for their firms. Both firms conducted extensive testing and reviewing of Change-Pro’s patent-pending document comparison product prior to making their decisions.

Change-Pro compares the total document, including embedded objects (e.g.: Excel, Visio, ChemDraw and SmartDraw objects) and embedded images (e.g.: jpg, tiff, bmp, gif, png and more) and is backed by responsive and respectful customer service and technical support teams.

"The addition of Freshfields and Jones Day to the Change-Pro family solidifies to us that our business strategy works," said Deepak Massand, founder and C.E.O. of Litéra Corp. "Our clients demand access to the latest in technological advances, but they also need a partner company that closely works with their technical teams with respect and consideration at each step of the way."

Freshfields and Jones Day are just two of many recent converts to the Change-Pro Total Document solution. In recent months, a number of leading law firms, including White & Williams, Heenan Blakie, Downey Brand and Eckert Seamans, have also switched to Change-Pro's patent-pending solution, the only product available that redlines the total document.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information
Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Softwise® Corporation and Litéra® Corp. Announce Joint Venture

Two Metadata Management Utilities Become One Highly Advanced Offering

Staten Island, NY and McLeansville, NC: SoftWise^® Corporation (www.softwise.net) and Litéra^® Corp. (www.litera.com), two highly respected resources in the document production and management marketplace, have agreed to merge their respective metadata utilities, Out-of-Sight^® and Metadata Sweeper^®. The new product is to be named Metadact.

Metadact will allow users to view and act on Metadata in all Microsoft Office and PDF documents. The combining of the two products has produced a consummate set of 14 features that, until now, were exclusive to only one of the two. Metadact will be available to Litéra's customers in late 2008.

The announcement of this merger was made by SoftWise Corporation Founder and President William L. Robertson and by Deepak Massand, founder of Litéra Corp.

“Both our companies share an unswerving commitment to our users and to the quality of our products. This product merger now provides the best features and the most highly effective functionality of two strong and distinctive solutions,” states Robertson.

Massand added, “Metadact will combine the best of Out-of-Sight and Metadata Sweeper. Both these products have already proven their unequivocal values in the marketplace. By merging the two technologies, we underscore the critical importance of easily accessible metadata management.”

Metadata is the collective term for embedded information contained in all Microsoft Office documents. Though usually hidden on screen, metadata components such as last 10 authors, file paths, editing time, tracked changes and comments are constantly accumulating and can be easily discovered in any electronic document. Delivered as a shrink-wrapped engine, Metadact’s easy-to-use, single dialog approach to design will enable firms to identify metadata components within their documents; generate detailed reports of that metadata; and then “clean” those documents, before sending them, by eliminating the unwanted metadata.

About Litéra

Litéra Corp. is the innovation leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for secure document collaboration, comparison and cleansing. Litéra offers solutions to enhance document-related business processes for an immediate return on investment and matches this business value with world-class customer support. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in McLeansville, N.C., Litéra sells its products directly and through a select global network of channel partners. For more information, visit www.litera.com or call 336.375.2991.

Contact Information
Litéra^® Corp
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
925.999.9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

About SoftWise: SoftWise^® Corporation, a New York based company, is focused exclusively on developing state-of-the-art software products that meet the challenges faced by organizations in today's competitive marketplace. Approximately 30 percent of the top 200 law firms use SoftWise’s Innova document automation platform and/or Out-of-Sight metadata management utility. With more than 280 installations and over 85,000 active users, SoftWise continues to aggressively expand its client base, both domestically and internationally. SoftWise was founded in 1991 by William L. Robertson, who today serves as the company’s president. For more information please visit http://www.softwise.net/ or call 718.876.9776.