NISCA Ships New NISCAN Page 
The World's First Completely Portable True Gray Scale Scanner

CARROLLTON, Texas (March 10, 1993) - NISCA Incorporated, developer of the
first true gray scale hand held scanner, announces shipment of the NISCAN
Page, the world's first portable, sheet fed, true gray scale scanner that
can connect to any IBM compatible PC, including notebook computers. This
truly innovative product may change the way optical scanners are perceived
- as primarily a desktop publishing tool. "We think NISCAN Page is a
revolutionary product. It's portability and connectability give it
hundreds of business applications, and its high resolution and superior
image quality make it an excellent imaging product as well." stated Tai
Nakamura, President of NISCA Incorporated.

NISCAN Page, which retails for $799.00, is an 8-bit scanner that comes with
its own exclusive OCR, image editing, and fax-on-the-fly software from
OCRON, Inc. called Words&Pictures. "NISCAN Page is the result of a
development effort that began by asking users what they wanted in a
scanner. We think we have met their requirements and then some." said Mr.
Nakamura.

NISCAN Page is battery powered and requires no interface board. It simply
plugs into the parallel printer port. NISCAN Page comes equipped with a
rechargeable battery and an A/C adapter. The A/C adapter can be used to
power the NISCAN Page and recharge the battery. The battery has a long
life of 30 full page scans and can be recharged while the scanner is in
use.

NISCAN Page can scan in two modes, sheet fed and hand-guided. In sheet fed
mode, NISCAN Page can scan documents from business card size to legal size
(8-1/2"x14"). Users who need to scan originals that cannot be put through
a sheet fed device, such as books or catalogs, simply snap off the base
plate to convert NISCAN Page to hand-guided mode. In hand-guided mode, the
scan width is still 8-1/2", but the length can be up to 75". In either
mode, NISCAN Page has a maximum resolution of 400 dpi 8-bit gray, 32
brightness and contract settings and creates a crisp clear image file that
is comparable to most desktop flatbed true gray scale scanners.

NISCAN Page Words&Pictures reads text from 6 to 36 point size and saves in
all popular Windows-based program file formats. Column selection and merge
region icons allow the user to scan single column (business reports) and
multiple column (newspapers and magazines) originals without a lot of
set-up time. An Words option lets the user scan printed text directly into
Windows-based word processors, spreadsheets, desktop publishers, or any
other text application. Word&Pictures provides a full-featured image
editing module that includes rotate, flip, crop, copy, and many more.
TIFF, PCX, and BMP graphic file formats are supported.

NISCAN Page Words&Pictures' versatile fax-on-the-fly capability allows the
user to fax the image or text that is being scanned. The user simply loads
the document into the scanner and clicks the FAX button. Since the fax is
sent directly to the user's Windows compatible fax modem printer driver,
the computer does not require a huge amount of memory. It should be noted
that the fax modem/fax driver software is not included with NISCAN Page.

NISCAN Page includes a TWAIN Source that gives the user compatibility with
most other image and OCR software packages available for Windows. As with
previous NISCA products, a Scanner Application Program Interface (SAPI)
driver that allows NISCAN Page to be used with most popular image and OCR
applications for DOS is available.

NISCA Incorporated is a wholly owned subsidiary of NISCA Corporation of
Kofu, Japan, a manufacturer of optical, mechanical, and electronic
products for may of the world's leading names in today's electronics such
as Cannon, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Hitachi, Epson, Casio, Minolta, Sharp, Sanyo,
and Nikon to name a few.

NISCA Inc, 1919 OLD DENTON RD, SUITE 104, CARROLLTON, TX 75006
214-242-9696;   FACSIMILE: 214-245-0942

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