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ScanSoft, Inc. announced the ScanSoft OmniPage Search Indexer for Google Desktop Search. The beta release of the plug-in, which is available free on the Google Web site, automatically creates text-index information from PDF files and faxes, as well as scanned books and documents – making them visible to Google Desktop Search. The OmniPage Search Indexer uses ScanSoft’s optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF conversion technology to recognize the text within image-based content, creating the index information needed by the search application. The OmniPage Search Indexer is based on technology found in ScanSoft OmniPage Pro Office 14. OmniPage is also used to batch convert various formats into searchable PDF archives for content management systems. ScanSoft also provides this capability to developers who wish to add imaging and PDF capabilities to their applications, via the OmniPage Capture SDK. The English language beta release of the OmniPage Search Indexer for Google Desktop Search is available via download. Versions for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish will be made available within 30 days. Pricing for the final release of the plug-in has not been set. The plug-in indexes the image text found within PDF normal, PDF image, JPEG/JPG, TIFF/TIF (FAX), BMP and PaperPort MAX file formats, and supports personal computers running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000. www.ScanSoft.com,

The Content Management Professionals organization (CM Pros) is looking for an Executive Director. The role of the Executive Director is key to the success of Content Management Professionals. This position has been held by Bob Doyle, who has put a tremendous amount of work into the organization. He will be stepping down from this role to participate in CM Pros in other ways so we are looking for a new Executive Director. The position Executive Director is appointed by the Board of Directors and is largely a volunteer position, but an honorarium will be provided. It is expected to require 10-20 hours of work per week. The ideal candidate will be a proven leader and seasoned professional manager who will take overall responsibility for building and expanding the organization. For more information see the job description. Please provide your response to board@cmprofessionals.org by March 18. http://www.cmprofessionals.org/, www.cmprofessionals.org/organization/roles/ExecutiveDirectorCMPros.pdf

Infotrieve, Inc. announced plans to launch its new web-based search and discovery research environment, the Life Science Research Center (LSRC), in March 2005. The LSRC simplifies scientists’ daily workflow by providing a user interface to search diverse types of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information and to identify relationships across traditionally disparate sources of content. The LSRC will utilize full-text searching of pre-processed STM content such as literature, patents, drug pipeline data, genes, technical protocols, laboratory products, and industry news. In addition to full-text searching and the identification of relationships through entity extraction and concept clustering, the Life Science Research Center features secure meta searching of external and internal corporate data sources, personalization for individuals and collaborative workgroups, and other search capabilities. Infotrieve is currently integrating the Infotrieve Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) with the LSRC, as well as literature retrieval, and laboratory product purchasing. www.infotrieve.com

Stellent, Inc. announced the release of Stellent Outside In Technology version 8.0. Version 8.0 is a new release of the entire suite of Outside In products: Outside In Viewer Technology, Outside In Content Access, Outside In Search Export, Outside In HTML Export, Outside In XML Export, Outside In Image Export and Outside In Transformation Server. The new release features performance improvements, and new file format and operating system support. Additionally, it includes an architectural enhancement that consolidates graphics handling code into one module, which will reduce time-to-market for future Outside In releases. Outside In 8.0 includes a new SDK — Outside In Search Export — designed specifically for application developers in the search, indexing, computer forensics and electronic evidence discovery markets. This product provides these customers with search-specific transformation options, including a choice of output formats for converting files to XML, HTML or text. Outside In 8.0 allows for the searching and indexing of MSG, PST, OST, MIME and other email formats. The new version also provides support for Visio 2003; Project 2003; Corel Word Perfect Office Suite 12; Office 2004 for Macintosh; the Korean and Japanese word processing programs Hangul 2002, and Ichitaro 13 and 2004; and updates for Star Office Writer 6.0. The Viewer Technology SDK also includes enhanced bi-directional text display for Arabic and Hebrew. The Outside In 8.0 release adds support for four new platforms: HP/UX Itanium 64 bit and 32 bit, Linux Itanium 64 bit, and Windows AMD 64. www.stellent.com

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management, taking place April 11-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California, will offer attendees an early look at how today’s growing trends of blogging and wikis should be considered for use in enterprise applications. Also announced today is the immediate availability of a new Gilbane Report titled, “Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications?” Taking place at 8:30 a.m. PST on Wednesday, April 13, the conference is hosting a session titled “Blogs, Wikis, and RSS as Enterprise Content Applications.” The session will offer attendees an opportunity to understand and consider how to use these technologies as enterprise applications or as components in these applications. Today, companies are using these technologies for collaboration, knowledge management, and publishing applications in corporate environments. Do these companies only represent the experimental fringe, or are they early adopters of technologies that will soon be part of every IT department’s bag of tricks? This session will look at the suitability of these for corporate use and hear from both skeptics and proponents. The conference session will be moderated by Lauren Wood, Consultant, Textuality Services and views will be presented by Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext, Inc. and Peter Quintas, Senior Vice President, General Manager, SilkRoad Technology. www.gilbane.com/conferences/San_Francisco_05_program.html, https://gilbane.com/articles.html, www.lighthouseseminars.com

GlobalSCAPE announced CuteHTML Pro 6, a development tool for creating and managing Web sites. It combines editing capabilities with ease of use. New features in Version 6 include: File Editing Directly from the Server, Server Mapping, Improved User Interface, Code Snippets Library, and Full-Site Link checking. $34.99 until March 31, 2005. www.globalscape.com

Arbortext, Inc. announced it has entered into a reseller partnership with Selens, a Brazilian integrated IT services and solution provider. Selens will work with Arbortext to provide sales, professional services and technical support for Arbortext publishing applications targeted at Brazil’s businesses in the manufacturing, aerospace, life science and financial industries. www.selens.com.br, www.arbortext.com

EMC Corporation announced software that allows customers to more effectively search, retrieve and utilize active enterprise archives created with EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS). The new EMC Centera Seek and EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter software enable the advanced search and retrieval of fixed content across multiple terabytes, making utilization-based reporting and billing possible. EMC Centera Seek provides a new, advanced search capability using metadata. EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter is a new reporting tool that provides detailed archive data reports for corporate chargeback systems. Centera Chargeback Reporter also leverages stored metadata to provide sophisticated and customizable capacity utilization reporting. Centera Seek’s advanced searching capabilities can be leveraged by more than 170 applications from independent software vendor (ISV) applications that have been integrated with the Centera API. Centera Seek improves any type of discovery request through a more accurate and efficient search method. This new software is based on technology from FAST Search and Transfer (FAST) and its InStream enterprise search engine product through an OEM agreement with EMC. EMC also announced a rebranding of its EMC Centera Compliance Edition, EMC’s CAS solution for regulated organizations, to EMC Centera Governance Edition. EMC Centera will continue to market its Compliance Edition Plus solution targeting the most stringently regulated environments. www.emc.com