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Dicom Group PLC
27 October 2003



For Release                                                      27 October 2003


DICOM Group plc: Strategic Partnership


DICOM Group plc ("DICOM Group"), a global leader in the Electronic Document
Capture ("EDC") market, announces that its wholly-owned US subsidiary, Kofax,
the world's largest information capture vendor, joined the PeopleSoft Partner
Connection Program. Associated with this announcement, Kofax has completed
integration between Ascent(R) Capture(R) and PeopleSoft(R) Recruiting Solutions.


Ascent Capture accelerates recruiting business processes by collecting paper
resumes, transforming them into accurate, retrievable information, and
delivering it into PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions. Ascent Capture is a modular
application that can be used right out of the box to meet the information
capture needs of a specific department and expanded with Ascent modules to meet
the complex requirements of a high-volume enterprise. The open Ascent
architecture makes it easy to extend the basic application to handle complex,
high-volume forms processing, as well as to capture information directly from
remote offices. Ascent Capture offers unmatched compatibility with scanners and
other capture devices, plus content and document management systems, workflow
applications and databases. Ascent Capture ensures consistent capture, indexing
and validation of an enterprise's important information.


PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions delivers a complete, integrated solution that
enables organisations to effectively manage the entire workforce acquisition
process. Featuring comprehensive functionality, an underlying global
architecture, and tight integration with PeopleSoft(R) Human Resource Management
System (HRMS), PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions provides world class hiring and
onboarding. Everyone involved in the hiring process-applicants, recruiters,
hiring managers, external suppliers-can collaborate in real-time, helping
organisations find and hire the best applicants in the shortest amount of time.


Commenting, Arnold von Buren, Chief Executive Officer, DICOM Group said: "This
partnership will enable Kofax and DICOM Group to help organisations worldwide
looking to augment their PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions with our
industry-leading platform for information capture. In doing so, Kofax and DICOM
Group continue to support their commitment to helping organisations improve
vital business processes by transforming documents into retrievable
information."


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Urs Niederberger, COO and Finance Director          Peter Binns
Dr. Bettina Moschner, Investor Relations Manager    Paul McManus
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About DICOM Group plc


DICOM Group plc ("DICOM Group") is the global leader in the Electronic Document
Capture ("EDC") market, a growth sector of the Office Automation industry. EDC
improves the performance of many business applications such as document and
content management and converts non-digital and digital documents into
structured data streams. Its implementation allows substantial increases in
office efficiency and offers high returns on investment.


DICOM Group's core competence is consulting, development and provision of EDC
products and services. Through authorised partners, DICOM Group has helped blue
chip enterprises in more than 60 countries to accomplish superior office
efficiency. DICOM Group supports its channels and customers with some 800 EDC
specialists, being directly present in 25 countries in Europe, the USA, South
East Asia and Australia.


The Ascent Capture platform captures scanned document images, text, forms, XML
data and Microsoft Office(R) documents. Web-based components and server products
enable organisations to capture information wherever it enters the organisation
- eliminating shipping costs and accelerating access to that information. Its
patented and award-winning VirtualReScan TM (VRS) product improves document
image quality and the scanning process in real time.


DICOM Group's European and Asian sales and service organisation offers a broad
range of services and complementary third party EDC products. Its network of
pre-sales, after-sales and consulting organisation addresses the increasing
demand for internationally deployed EDC solutions, project management and
professional support.


The Group's Samsung General Agency (SGA) Division focuses on multimedia
visualisation products for the IT, POI and Entertainment market in Switzerland.
It operates as sole agency of Samsung's high performance flat screen display.


About Kofax


Kofax (www.kofax.com), a division of DICOM Group plc (LSE:DCM), is a leading
developer of application software and image-processing products for the
Electronic Document Capture (EDC) market. According to research by Strategy
Partners, Kofax is the largest information capture software vendor in the world.
EDC is essential to helping document-intensive organisations economically,
reliably and securely collect, transform and deliver information from all
sources into their electronic business processes and archives.






PeopleSoft is a registered trademark of PeopleSoft, Inc.


Ascent, Ascent Capture, and Kofax are registered trademarks of Kofax Image
Products, Inc.






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