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Dicom Group PLC
13 January 2004



13 January 2003


DICOM Group plc: Development Investment Agreement


DICOM Group plc ("DICOM Group"), a global leader in the Electronic Document
Capture ("EDC") market, announces that its wholly owned US subsidiary, Kofax,
has signed a development investment agreement with In-Q-Tel, the private,
independent, non-profit venture capital group funded by the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), to advance document exploitation technologies.


Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, will combine and enhance
its industry-leading information capture applications and its Mohomine
classification technology to support document exploitation activities conducted
by government organisations. The initial In-Q-Tel investment round is
approximately $350,000 for research, development and productization.


In-Q-Tel's mission is to invest in cutting-edge technology firms that provide
advanced dual-use technologies that can assist its government customers more
effectively complete their missions. The process of transforming collected
documents into actionable information, termed Document Exploitation, is
important in both commercial and government markets because it enables users to
cull through volumes of data to find salient pieces of information more
efficiently.


According to Arnold von Buren, Chief Executive Officer at DICOM Group,
information capture and text classification technologies have already been
proven in the private sector. Now, with Kofax's help, In-Q-Tel can deliver these
commercial document exploitation solutions to the Intelligence Community more
rapidly.


"Today, most organisations and analysts are overwhelmed with the amount and type
of unstructured data they must analyse every day such as Web pages, news
articles, e-mail, cables, and myriad printed and handwritten document types,"
said von Buren. "It can be extremely difficult to methodically sort and filter
through these documents to uncover actionable data."


The terms of the In-Q-Tel agreement include licensing of Ascent Capture products
as well as Mohomine MohoClassifier. These technologies will enable national
security organisations to address several issues related to unstructured data.


"With the combination of Kofax's information capture and its Mohomine automated
text-classification technology offerings, the intelligence community now convert
all forms of printed and electronic documents into useful and exploitable
information of potential value. In both the business world and in government,
this can mean significant time and cost savings," said Gilman Louie, In-Q-Tel
chief executive officer.


In April of 2003, DICOM Group and Kofax acquired the Mohomine product line to
grow the organisation's traditional capture markets by further automating the
capture of unstructured textual data. "Our agreement with In-Q-Tel is another
milestone for our worldwide organisation and directly reflects the progress we
have made with the integration of Mohomine technologies into our product
portfolio. The acquisition of the Mohomine product line continues to open doors
for us," said von Buren.


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About DICOM Group plc


DICOM Group plc ("DICOM Group") is the global leader in the Electronic Document
Capture ("EDC") market, a growth sector of the Office Automation industry. EDC
improves the performance of many business applications such as document and
content management and converts non-digital and digital documents into
structured data streams. Its implementation allows substantial increases in
office efficiency and offers high returns on investment.


DICOM Group's core competence is consulting, development and provision of EDC
products and services. Through authorised partners, DICOM Group has helped blue
chip enterprises in more than 60 countries to accomplish superior office
efficiency. DICOM Group supports its channels and customers with some 800 EDC
specialists, being directly present in 25 countries in Europe, the USA, South
East Asia and Australia.


The Ascent Capture platform captures scanned document images, text, forms, XML
data and Microsoft Office(R) documents. Web-based components and server products
enable organisations to capture information wherever it enters the organisation
- eliminating shipping costs and accelerating access to that information. Its
patented and award-winning VirtualReScan TM (VRS) product improves document
image quality and the scanning process in real time.


DICOM Group's European and Asian sales and service organisation offers a broad
range of services and complementary third party EDC products. Its network of
pre-sales, after-sales and consulting organisation addresses the increasing
demand for internationally deployed EDC solutions, project management and
professional support.


The Group's Samsung General Agency (SGA) Division focuses on multimedia
visualisation products for the IT, POI and Entertainment market in Switzerland.
It operates as sole agency of Samsung's high performance flat screen display.



About Kofax


Kofax (www.kofax.com), a division of DICOM Group plc (LSE:DCM), is a leading
developer of application software and image-processing products for the
Electronic Document Capture (EDC) market. According to research by Strategy
Partners, Kofax is the largest information capture software vendor in the world.
EDC is essential to helping document-intensive organisations economically,
reliably and securely collect, transform and deliver information from all
sources into their electronic business processes and archives.



About In-Q-Tel

In-Q-Tel (www.inqtel.com) is a private, independent enterprise funded by the
CIA. Launched in 1999, In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and invest in companies
developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States
national security interests. Working from an evolving strategic blueprint that
defines the CIA's critical information technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with
entrepreneurs, established companies, researchers and venture capitalists to
deliver technologies that pay out in superior intelligence capabilities for the
DIA and the larger intelligence community.



Ascent, Ascent Capture, and Kofax are registered trademarks of Kofax Image
Products Inc.






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