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Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV), a leading provider of input management solutions, today announced the introduction of PixTools(R) Distributed Imaging (PDI), a software development toolkit designed to help application developers and webmasters quickly and easily build fully functional distributed imaging solutions into web pages via HTML, JavaScript or VBScript. Applications built with PDI enable users to control ISIS(R) or TWAIN digital scanners, view scanned images, import non-image files, add index data and securely upload images and data to the PDI server via an Internet browser. Distributed imaging can save organizations substantial time and costs by assigning labor-intensive tasks, such as document scanning, to locations where the documents arise or it is most economically desirable. For enterprises distributed across geographic locations with multiple offices, remote agents or offsite employees, distributed imaging allows data from various locations to be processed as if it were all from the same source, thereby eliminating the time and expense required to transmit hard copies of documents to centralized scanning locations. By transmitting information electronically, distributed imaging also increases security by preventing the loss of documents in transit and reduces copying costs by making digital images of documents available anyplace there is a PC and web browser. "Utilizing the PDI toolkit to create applications enables developers to accelerate document processing, reduce support costs and establish the secure transmission of electronic information to a central location for processing," said Jim Vickers, Captiva's Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager of Pixel Translations. "PixTools Distributed Imaging was developed in response to customer requests to streamline the capture and submission of documents and other information in the field. We've received significant interest in this product and are excited about its market potential." Industry analysts also point to expected growth in the distributed imaging market. "Based on the rising sales of smaller desktop scanners and the increasing use of MFPs for scanning in the US, distributed capture is set to explode," said Harvey Spencer, Principal of Harvey Spencer & Associates. "Increases in desktop and distributed scanning are driven by the need to capture and truncate documents as fast as possible at the point closest to where they enter the organization." According to a recent InfoTrends study, half of the organizations surveyed said they use some type of decentralized scanning in departmental or workgroup environments, but it's likely that only a small fraction of these have implemented true distributed capture. According to the study, 26% of respondents said they planned to move to a more decentralized approach to reduce operational costs and improve efficiencies. About Captiva Software Corporation Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV) is a leading provider of input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and XML data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing, manufacturing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com. PixTools and ISIS are registered trademarks of Captiva Software Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. 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The risks, uncertainties and assumptions referred to above include, among other things, performance of contracts by customers and partners; employee management issues; the timely development, production and acceptance of the Company's products and services and their feature sets; the challenge of managing asset levels, including inventory; the flow of products into third-party distribution channels; and the difficulty of keeping expense growth at modest levels while increasing revenues. These and other risks and factors that could cause our results to differ from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements are described in Captiva Software Corporation's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as well as other subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation and do not intend to update these forward-looking statements.