NovoDynamics, Inc. a leading developer of advanced pattern recognition and analytics technologies, announced a partnership with Forefront Technologies, the preeminent distributor of document imaging hardware and storage systems and solutions in the Middle East and Africa. Forefront's extensive network of resellers will distribute NovoDynamics® NovoVerus® optical character recognition (OCR) software to help government, academic and commercial customers streamline document capture and processing with rapid conversion of paper document images into actionable text.

"The intelligence that NovoDynamics has built into NovoVerus' software truly raises the bar for language detection, recognition and data extraction, taking Arabic and multilingual OCR to an unparalleled level!" said Georges Mehchi, CFO & Managing Partner, Forefront Technologies. "Introducing this technology into Middle Eastern and African markets will be life changing, not only for Arab nations, but globally."

"As the recent GITEX event showed, there is a tremendous need in the Middle East for the superior quality OCR that NovoVerus delivers," commented David Rock, President and CEO of NovoDynamics. "Forefront's position within the Imaging industry of the region will greatly accelerate our ability to meet this demand through their distinguished network of VARs and integrators."

NovoVerus automatically cleans and converts even the most challenging documents— including scanned or faxed images from damaged originals and degraded copies — into digital text, ready for post-processing, analysis and translation. Including support for mixed language documents, NovoVerus handles global languages including Arabic, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Pashto, Hebrew, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, French and English. For more information, visit www.NovoDynamics.com.