Omtool will be demonstrating its products - adopted by nearly 250 law firms - at LegalTech 2008, Booth No. 321/323/325

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2008--Omtool, Ltd. (OTCBB:OMTL), a leading provider of document capture and handling products and services, today announced further enhancements to its AccuRoute product line extending its support and dedication to customers in the legal industry. As the company continues to grow with nearly 250 legal customers and 45% of the top 100 U.S. law firms, Omtool is responding to market requirements and expanding its customer base by adding new features and enhancements to its already comprehensive legal solutions including the Legal Option Pack, embedded multi-function device clients using PIN Personalization, and cost recovery integrations.

Document capture and routing has become a critical infrastructure requirement of many law firms. Progressive firms have come to realize that business-critical information is trapped in huge volumes of paper documents, and scanning those documents makes the information immediately accessible throughout their organizations from within their document management systems and in enterprise search results. Omtool models its solution based on the way legal employees conduct every day business. Users are accustomed to using fax so Omtool responded by creating a routing sheet - with the look and feel of an ordinary fax cover sheet - to initiate a document scan. Users also demand the ability to access and profile documents from within their document management systems. Omtool responded with extensions to support the document management systems common to the legal marketplace. Last year the company announced its Legal Option Pack which is tightly integrated with Interwoven WorkSite, and now recently with Open Text eDOCs (formerly Hummingbird DM), to provide employees with simple "right-click" access directly into AccuRoute from their document management system.

"We look forward to deploying the AccuRoute Legal Option Pack solution. We expect it will allow our firm to become a more efficient, streamlined organization," said Daniel Harrison, CIO, White & Williams LLP. "Each new Omtool application that we've adopted has provided us with an opportunity to grow, save costs, and ultimately, improve productivity and our end user experience. Their AccuRoute Legal Option Pack will provide us with much-needed functionality for integrating our paper documents with our electronic information."

Today, multi-function printer (MFP) providers have added new intelligence to their devices that allows software to be embedded and accessed by users from the front panel of these "smart" machines. Now, document capture and routing solutions such as AccuRoute can be driven from the desktop and accessed directly from these intelligent networked MFPs. Through Omtool's partnerships with many of the leading MFP vendors such as HP, Ricoh, and Xerox, among others, AccuRoute has become a natural and necessary extension to existing MFP solutions to deliver full enterprise-class document capture and routing.

A new feature now available through the AccuRoute Embedded Device Client for HP offers an optional feature called PIN Personalization. Through the Omtool PIN Personalization Agent, a user can walk up to the device, identify himself and AccuRoute presents his personal routing rules and default scan options. A user may now be identified at the HP MFP device by entering his e-mail address, employee ID, or other PIN code and the resulting screen is personalized to his options and defined routing rules. This translates into benefits such as increased productivity by being able to identify oneself easily and quickly at the device as well as increasing user adoption of AccuRoute and its personalized scanning functionalities.

Law firms have traditionally charged back their clients for tasks such as faxing, copying, courier fees, etc. Within the last few years, firms have realized that scanning and document capture tasks are also candidates for client billing. Omtool's AccuRoute is accessible directly from the terminals of leading cost recovery systems such as Billback Systems, Control Systems, Inc. (Copitrak), Equitrac Corporation, and nQueue INC. to deliver single access and billing for document capture. The same software infrastructure from Omtool works with any user access method desired whether through a traditional routing sheet, through the interface of a smart MFP, or through a cost recovery terminal making AccuRoute the most extensible software platform for document capture available.

Times change and technologies change. As law firms adopt new technologies such as more advanced document management systems or enterprise search capabilities, their business-critical documents must adapt too. Electronic documents that were originally captured as scanned images are not text-searchable and cannot be accessed by enterprise search capabilities. Heeding the needs of the marketplace, Omtool now delivers a "document extractor" which can convert documents from image-only files to fully text-searchable documents unleashing the power of the content to the firm, as well as aiding in the migration from one document management system to another.

"Clearly, Omtool is the established leader in providing enterprise-class, software-based document capture and handling solutions," said Thaddeus Bouchard, CTO, Omtool. "We are listening carefully to the legal industry and responding to shifts in this dynamic and progressive marketplace to deliver technologies that are aligned with our customers' needs. We now offer the most extensive product with the greatest support for integrated software solutions with our MFP, cost recovery, and document management partners."

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 in 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.

CONTACT: Omtool, Ltd.
Karen Cummings, 978-327-5707
kcummings@omtool.com
or
Brandon Keough, 617-451-6070 ext. 217
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SOURCE: Omtool, Ltd.