Over 200 Languages Supported by ZyLAB, Including All Western-European, Eastern-European, Baltic, African, Asian and South-American Languages

London, November 13, 2006 – ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced that its award-winning software, ZyIMAGE, now supports the Hebrew language.  This support is based on growing business opportunities in Israel and the Jewish community as well as worldwide requirements to search and retrieve one of the world’s oldest languages.

ZyLAB offers translated products for English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, Khmer, Arabic and Farsi.  Dedicated to providing the most comprehensive array of language support in the world, ZyLAB's optical character recognition (OCR) and full-text indexing technology now supports well over 200 languages including all Western-European, Eastern-European, Baltic, African, Asian and South-American languages.

ZyLAB's technical ability for broad language and character recognition enhances the accuracy of stored information searches and helps diminish the costs incurred by incorrect searches or text correction.  Automatic language recognition during the OCR process, as well as the ZyIMAGE software's ability to choose between the best results of multiple OCR engines (i.e. the "voting" algorithm), simplifies the OCR process significantly and offers in the best possible OCR performance in multi-lingual environments.

“We continue to get requests from around the world to support the Hebrew language, including support for searching and retrieving various historical archives in Israel,” said Dr. Johannes Scholtes, president of ZyLAB North America LLC.  “In addition, as a global solutions provider we are currently focused on expanding our reseller channel in Israel and believe this market offers us a great opportunity.”

About ZyLAB
For 25 years, ZyLAB has provided commercial and government organisations around the world with award-winning information access solutions. TheZyIMAGEInformation Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a secure foundation for the long-term archiving, management and retrieval of information, from digitisedpaper documents, to electronic files, to e-mail and attachments, to multimedia. 

With over 7,500 installations and 350,000 users worldwide, ZyLAB has a wealth of experience and knowledge across a variety of industries and business applications. ZyIMAGE is a critical business tool of hundreds of banks, legal firms and insurance and financial services companies, including Coutts, Rabobank, Bank of Ireland, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Digby Brown and the forensic accounting departments of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. ZyIMAGE is also used by many UK public-sector organisations, such as the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Metropolitan Police, Serious Fraud Office and the University Hospital of Wales. Leading manufacturing and service companies which rely on ZyIMAGE include BMW, Moy Park, Radisson Edwardian Hotels, BBC, Shering-Plough, Haden Young and Balfour Beatty, to name just a few. For more information visit: www.zylab.co.uk