ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2009-- Omtool™ (OMTL.PK), a leading provider of document capture and handling solutions, today announced the opening of its second-annual “Drive for Innovation Awards” for the legal community. This prestigious award is presented to Omtool customers who, in the last year, have achieved new levels of innovation, marked improvement, and/or return on investment in the areas of information accessibility, compliance, document capture and/or efficiency, leveraging Omtool’s industry-leading AccuRoute^® technology.

Omtool is now accepting entries from law firms, corporate legal departments, and business partners on behalf of legal clients, worldwide, for the most innovative uses of AccuRoute within their respective organization(s). Submissions must focus on specific use cases and best practices highlighting Omtool’s AccuRoute technology. The call for entries is open until Friday, July 31, 2009 (8:00 p.m. ET). For complete contest details and rules, please visit www.omtool.com/Legal-Innovation-Award.

“Our customers have achieved some remarkable results,” said Karen Cummings, executive vice president of sales and marketing with Omtool. “Through the use of AccuRoute, top law firms around the world have been able to achieve immediate ROI, efficiency, and compliance improvements. What better way to showcase those achievements than by presenting our customers with an award for their hard work. The goal of this award is two-fold, to honor those who have been successful and to help other legal organizations who might be facing similar challenges.”

Previous winners of the Drive for Innovation Awards include: Baker & Daniels LLP, Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. and Nixon Peabody LLP.

“We were very happy to be the first recipient of Omtool’s annual Drive for Innovation Award,” said Monroe Horn, chief technology officer with Bromberg & Sunstein LLP – the grand prize winner of Omtool’s 2008 Drive for Innovation Awards. “We worked hard to build corporate governance policies around AccuRoute that helped us automate document workflows including digitizing client-related paper entering and leaving our firm, creating searchable PDFs, and supporting e-filing requirements. These are issues that every law firm faces and by highlighting our ability to overcome these challenges, we were able to educate our peers on the value of our relationship with Omtool.”

Winners will be chosen through a blind review process by a panel of impartial industry experts including:

• Christy Burke, founder and president, Burke & Company LLC
• Bernard Chester, principal, IMERGE Consulting
• Dave Cunningham, managing director, Baker Robbins & Company Technology Consultants
• Randy Dazo, director of document solutions, InfoTrends
• Chris Degnan, chief executive officer, Younts Consulting
• Don Holland, partner, HSV Consulting Group
• Monroe Horn, chief technology officer, Bromberg & Sunstein LLP
• Harvey Spencer, president of Harvey Spencer Associates
• Robert Zacharski, president of Data Minds

Winners of the 2009 Drive for Innovation Awards will be announced during the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. The top winners will be awarded with 2009 Drive for Innovation Award trophies and associated public promotions. The first place award recipient will also receive $20,000 in cooperative marketing and licensing funds from Omtool.

Omtool’s AccuRoute solution is a document capture and handling platform that collects content from various sources – hardcopy, e-mail, fax, and hand-held devices – processes the document, composes it, and passes the finished product to various delivery destinations such as document and records management systems, litigation support systems, e-mail recipients, archives, and output devices. Currently, Omtool works with more than 300 law firms worldwide, including nearly half of the top 100 US law firms. For more information on Omtool’s capabilities within the legal sector, please visit www.omtool.com/LegalSolutions.

About AccuRoute

Omtool's acclaimed AccuRoute streamlines the capture, conversion, communication, and archiving of paper and electronic documents for organizations of all sizes. This server-based document capture and handling platform provides fast, secure and simultaneous document distribution to multiple destinations in multiple formats enabling organizations to perform complex document management tasks more efficiently. Designed for distributed enterprise document routing and accessible from any desktop computer or network-enabled scanning device (including digital MFP devices), AccuRoute makes documents immediately accessible where and when they are needed. The result: organizations enjoy faster, more efficient document workflows, while reducing associated costs, complexity, and risk.

About Omtool, Ltd.

Omtool, Ltd. is a leading provider of document capture and handling solutions that simplify the integration of paper and electronic documents into enterprise information management systems. Our flagship product, AccuRoute, streamlines the capture, conversion and communication of paper and electronic documents, enabling fast, secure, simultaneous distribution to multiple destinations in multiple formats. Available at any network-enabled scan device or from a user's desktop computer, AccuRoute provides faster, more efficient workflows, while reducing cost, complexity and risk. Omtool solutions are used worldwide by businesses in document-intensive industries that demand secure handling, integration and tracking of documents in full compliance with a range of regulatory requirements. Based in Andover, Massachusetts with offices in the United Kingdom, Omtool can be contacted at 1-800-886-7845 or www.omtool.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Omtool's future financial and operating performance; customer interest in and acceptance of Omtool's products; long-term sales strategy; distribution channels; and the future plans of Omtool's management. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations set forth in these forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, risks associated with Omtool's business, including introduction of new product offerings, concentration of all products in the electronic document exchange market, focus on specific vertical markets; Omtool's strategic focus on new vertical markets; and those other risk factors described in Omtool's periodic reports and registration statements as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Omtool undertakes no responsibility to update any such forward-looking statements.

Source: Omtool, Ltd.

Omtool, Ltd.
Karen Cummings, 978-327-5707
EVP, Sales & Marketing
kcummings@omtool.com
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For Omtool, Ltd.
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Shannon Palmer, 978-474-1900
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