January 31, 2001 [McLean, Virginia] VIDAR Systems Corporation, a leading provider of large format document scanning solutions, announces a two-and-a-half day conference to kick off the New Year with VIDAR’s partners from all over the world The conference will run from Wednesday, January 31 st until February 3 rd . As years past, this highly successful meeting for VIDAR’s partners will take place at the Hilton in McLean, Virginia. The event will begin with a cocktail reception at which Trevor Fennell, President and CEO, members of VIDAR’s Senior Management Team and the staff of VIDAR’s Engineering Business Line will welcome guests. Approximately seventy attendees will attend from 25 countries, as far away as Australia, Japan, Russia, Iceland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Korea and South Africa. During the Cocktail Reception, a Solutions Center will be open for VIDAR’s technology partners to demonstrate their software solutions. Trevor Fennell, President of VIDAR Systems Corporation, remarks “This annual conference gives us a wonderful opportunity not only to gain feedback from the market place but also to continue building strong relationships with the extended family of VIDAR partners”.