Kofax boss takes more shares

Chief executive Reynolds Bish has added to his stake in the California-based scanning software specialist Kofax.

He paid 467.3p a time for 10,000 shares, shelling out a total of £46,730. Following the purchase, he now has 36,150 shares in the company.

Late last month Kofax said it will acquire Massachusetts-based imaging software group Atalasoft for a maximum consideration of $9.7m.

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Bish was in 2003 named Ernst & Young's Software Entrepreneur of the Year for the San Diego area.

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