Caere Corporation

Caere Corporation operates as a scanner software company. The company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets optical character recognition (OCR) software and hardware for converting scanned and faxed images into computer usable text, as well as desktop electronic forms and information management products. It offers a range of OCR, electronic forms, and document management products to manage documents, images, forms, and faxes that cross desktops; and bar code scanners and OCR readers for transaction processing applications, such as data entry and check verification. The company also provides a line of OCR hardware products, including hand-held and slot-reader systems, to the original equipment manufacturer market. It serves customers in retail establishments, government agencies, banks, and utility companies. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Los Gatos, California. As of March 14, 2000, Caere Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Nuance Communications, Inc.