Vividata Announces New 'Personal' and 'Not-for-Profit' Price Discounts
for Linux and Unix OCR, Scanning and Printing Software

April 12, 2000 - Berkeley, CA - Vividata, Inc., a Berkeley-based Linux
and Unix imaging software company, has announced new reduced prices for
Personal and Not-for-profit users of its OCR Shop®, ScanShop® and
PostShop® software.

"We're excited about offering our customers new prices," says Vividata's
CEO Mark Liebman. "This will make it possible for many new users
including students to benefit from the many advantages our software can
bring them."

OCR Shop®, the only Linux and Unix optical character recognition
solution using Caere's omnipage engine, starts at $99 for personal
users, and $745 for not-for profits. OCR Shop® quickly converts printed
pages into readable text for editing in your favorite Linux or Unix word
processor. It has an intuitive point-and-click interface that simplifies
use, with automatic detection of scanner type.

ScanShop®, which provides a simple point-and-click interface for most
popular scanners, starts at $49 for personal users and $249 for not-for
profits. ScanShop® reads and writes virtually all standard file formats,
allowing you to easily incorporate images into your Linux and Unix
applications.

PostShop®, which allows users to easily print PostScript, PDF and many
image file formats to PostScript and non- PostScipt printers at high
speeds and with exceptional print quality, also starts at $49 for
personal users and $249 for not-for-profits. PostShop® includes a
software Raster Image Processor (RIP) which can print over 100 times
faster than otherwise possible.

"An exciting result of the Linux revolution has been the establishment
of a new and growing market for Unix software," says Liebman, "Linux has
established a new economy of scale, allowing Vividata Inc. to offer
lower prices than ever before."

Discount Eligibility:

A "Personal User" is defined to be an individual who will use the
software at home or in school - such as for entertainment, schoolwork,
or family computing - but not for professional work.

A"Not-for-Profit User" is defined to be a school, university, college,
charitable organization or health research institution.

All users can access a free 30 day trial download of Vividata's software
at www.vividata.com.

For further information, please contact Stephanie Cha-Ramos, Marketing
Coordinator, Vividata Inc., 1250 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94702.
Phone: (510) 841-6400 x 112. E-mail: stephanie@vividata.com.

About Vividata:

Vividata, Inc. was founded in 1988 by Mark Liebman, president and CEO,
to provide contract engineering and design services to imaging and
graphics product developers and manufacturers. Early projects included
"video in a window" solutions, 3D graphics, and computational fluid
dynamics.

Capitalizing on the expertise gained during the Company's first three
years in operation, Vividata released its first software product,
Vividriver®, a universal scanner interface, in 1991. With Vividriver®,
Vividata gained a high-profile customer base that includes Xerox, GTE,
JC Penney, and Merrill Lynch. In 1992, the Company released ScanShop®
which used the Vividriver® technology for its core. Today, with over
100,000 licenses sold, ScanShop® remains the most solid scanning
software available for UNIX environments. ScanShop's® wide range of
drivers and operating system support virtually eliminates the
possibility of a system breakdown when new scanners are added or
operating systems are upgraded.

In 1994, while solving the printing problems of the United States Navy,
the Company developed PostShop®, its third software product. Within one
year, Sun Microsystems site licensed PostShop® for its employeesand
subsidiaries worldwide. Soon after, Sun approached Vividata to develop a
client/server fax solution specifically designed to accommodate the
needs of its mobile clients while serving its internal employees. In
1996, FaxShop®, the resulting solution, became the second Vividata
product to be site licensed by Sun. The product was later offered to the
general public.

Meanwhile, Vividata had become the exclusive supplier of scanning and
printing software to Paragon Imaging, a subsidiary of CDI/Ceridian.
Paragon expanded Vividata's reach into the U.S. Department of Defense
(DOD) by selling PostShop® and ScanShop® to its imagery sector. In less
than 18 months, Paragon sold over $2 million of Vividata products to the
DOD.

Today, the two products - ScanShop® and PostShop® - represent over
250,000 licenses in the United States alone.

The release of ScanShop® and PostShop® signaled the emergence of a very
different kind of software company. Today, Vividata is the rare software
company whose product development direction is driven by its high
profile clients' imaging needs. Consequently, Vividata products are
already fully tested and in use within real-life applications of the
most demanding customers before being released to the general public.

Vividata is the only Company that provides a complete suite of fully
integrated enterprise software solutions for printing (PostShop®),
scanning (ScanShop®), and optical character recognition (OCR Shop®.) All
Vividata products are designed for standalone use and ease of
integration into other applications, providing unprecedented flexibility
to UNIX users.