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                                                                   Exhibit 10.26

                        LEADTOOLS DOCUMENT EXPRESS SUITE
                      DUPLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
                              (PER COPY AGREEMENT)

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Company Name: View Systems, Inc.       (herein "Licensee")
Attn:  Andrew L. Jiranek
Address:  9693 Gerwig Lane, Suite O
          (Street Address)
          Columbia, Maryland 21046
          (City, State, Postal Code, Country)

Phone No.:  410 290 5919    Fax No.:  410 290 5917

LEAD Product Licensed: LEADTOOLS DOCUMENT EXPRESS SUITE VERSION 11
(herein "Software")
LEADTOOLS Registration/Serial No:_______________________________
Title or Description of Licensee's Application: Video OCR
(herein "Application Software")
(Please fill in blank)
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         This Duplication and Distribution License ("Agreement") is made by and
between LEAD Technologies, Inc., a North Carolina corporation, principally
located at 900 Baxter Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28204, USA ("LEAD") and
Licensee. (Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein will have the meaning
ascribed to them in the License Agreement, as hereinafter defined.)

                                    RECITALS

         1.       Licensee has heretofore obtained a development license to use
                  the Software in connection with the development of the
                  Application Software in accordance with the terms of the
                  LEADTOOLS Software License Agreement, a copy of which is
                  included in the Software packaging and online help file, and
                  the terms of which are hereby incorporated herein by this
                  reference (herein the "License Agreement").

         2.       Licensee now wishes to obtain a license whereby it may
                  internally deploy or commercially distribute the Application
                  Software to end users and LEAD is willing to grant the
                  licenses described herein provided Licensee complies with the
                  terms and conditions of this Agreement.

         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and promises
set forth herein, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, do hereby
agree as follows:

         1.       EFFECTIVENESS OF LICENSE AGREEMENT; GRANT OF DUPLICATION AND
                  DISTRIBUTION LICENSE.

                  (a) LICENSE AGREEMENT. Licensee acknowledges that its use of
         the Software is governed by the terms, conditions, limitations and
         restrictions contained in the License Agreement and hereby agrees to
         faithfully abide by such terms and conditions and will not take any
         action with respect to the Software prohibited by the License
         Agreement. This Agreement is supplementary to the License Agreement,
         and this Agreement and the License Agreement together will govern
         Licensee's use of the Software and Application Software. Unless
         otherwise modified by the terms of this Agreement, all of the terms and
         conditions of the License Agreement remain in full force and effect. In
         the event of an inconsistency between this Agreement and the License
         Agreement, this Agreement will control.

                  (b) DUPLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE. Under LEAD's
         copyright, and subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in
         this Agreement and the License Agreement, including without limitation,
         the payment of the runtime licensing fees described in paragraph 2
         hereof, LEAD hereby grants Licensee (and only Licensee) a
         non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license to reproduce exact
         copies of the Redistributables (as such term is defined in the License
         Agreement) and include such files in the Application Software, and to
         deploy the Application Software on Licensee's owned and controlled
         computers and networks for use by Licensee's employees, contractors and
         affiliates and/or to commercially distribute the Application Software,
         directly or through customary distribution channels, to end users for
         their use without further distribution.


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         2.       LICENSE FEES.

                  (a) DEVELOPMENT LICENSE FEE. Licensee has been invoiced the
         initial development license fee for the Software (the price paid to
         LEAD or a LEAD reseller for the "box")and either has paid or shall pay
         the initial license fee in accordance with the terms of the invoice.

                  (b) NON OCR ENABLED DEPLOYMENTS. This subparagraph (b) applies
         to copies of the Application Software where OCR capability is NOT
         activated.

                           (i) FREE COPY. One free Deployment of Application
                  Software is included with License's development license.

                           (ii) PER COPY RUNTIME LICENSING. Except as otherwise
                  provided in paragraph 2(b)(i) and 2(b)(iii) hereof, Licensee
                  will pay a runtime license fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for
                  each Deployment of Application Software to be reported and
                  paid pursuant to paragraph 3 hereof.

                           (iii) PREPAID RUNTIME LICENSING. In lieu of paying
                  the Fifty Dollar ($50.00) per copy as set forth in paragraph
                  2(b)(ii) hereof, Licensee may pay in advance for its projected
                  runtime licensing needs in the quantities and for the prices
                  set forth below:

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<CAPTION>

              QUANTITY PREPAID                              PRICE PER COPY                    MINIMUM PREPAYMENT

             <S>                                              <C>                             <C>
                       5-9                                    $40.00                          $     200.00
                     10-24                                     30.00                                300.00
                     25-49                                     25.00                                625.00
                     50-99                                     20.00                              1,000.00
                   100-249                                     15.00                              1,500.00
                   250-499                                     10.00                              2,500.00
                   500-999                                      7.00                              3,500.00
               1,000-2,499                                      5.00                              5,000.00
               2,500-4,999                                      3.00                              7,500.00
               5,000-9,999                                      2.00                             10,000.00
                   10,000+                                      1.50                             15,000.00

</TABLE>

                  In order to receive the runtime pricing contained in this
                  paragraph 2(b)(iii), Licensee must prepay for its runtime
                  licenses in accordance with the above schedule PRIOR to
                  Deployment of the Application Software. To select a prepaid
                  Deployment option, Licensee shall send LEAD a purchase order
                  covering the desired number of copies of the Application
                  Software before making the Deployments covered by the purchase
                  order, and LEAD will generate an invoice covering the prepaid
                  copies. During the term hereof, Licensee may, from time to
                  time, issue multiple purchase orders for multiple quantity
                  orders. For example, if Licensee desires to use or distribute
                  two hundred fifty (250) copies of the Application Software,
                  and would like to take advantage of the Ten Dollar ($10.00)
                  per copy rate, Licensee must prepay for its runtime licenses
                  at the rate of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per copy ($2,500.00
                  prepayment), whereupon Licensee will have the right to use or
                  distribute up to two hundred fifty (250) copies of the
                  Application Software. Thereafter, from time to time, if
                  Licensee desires to use or distribute additional copy(s) of
                  Application Software and pay a rate of less than Fifty Dollars
                  ($50.00) per copy for such additional copies, Licensee will be
                  required, prior to shipment or use of any such additional
                  copy(s) of Application Software, to prepay for such copy(s) by
                  selecting any of the above prepayment options and making the
                  applicable prepayment to LEAD. For quantity purposes, each
                  purchase order will be viewed separately. For example, if
                  Licensee prepays for two hundred fifty (250) Deployments and
                  subsequently places another order for two hundred fifty (250)
                  additional Deployments, the required prepayment due for the
                  second two hundred fifty (250) Deployments is Two Thousand
                  Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00). ANY DEPLOYMENT OF
                  APPLICATION SOFTWARE FOR WHICH RUNTIME LICENSING HAS NOT BEEN
                  PREPAID PRIOR TO DISTRIBUTION OR USE PURSUANT TO THE PROCEDURE
                  DESCRIBED ABOVE WILL CARRY A RUNTIME LICENSING OBLIGATION OF
                  FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) PER COPY TO BE REPORTED AND PAID
                  QUARTERLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 3 BELOW.


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                  (c) OCR ENABLED DEPLOYMENTS. This subparagraph (c) applies to
         copies of Application Software where OCR capability IS activated.

                           (i) FREE COPY. One free Deployment of Application
                  Software is included with License's development license.

                           (ii) PER COPY RUNTIME LICENSING. Except as otherwise
                  provided in paragraph 2(c)(i) and 2(c)(iii) hereof, Licensee
                  will pay a runtime license fee of One Hundred Fifty Dollars
                  ($150.00) for each Deployment of Application Software to be
                  reported and paid pursuant to paragraph 3 hereof.

                           (iii) PREPAID RUNTIME LICENSING. In lieu of paying
                  the One Hundred Fifty Dollar ($150.00) per copy as set forth
                  in paragraph 2(c)(ii) hereof, Licensee may pay in advance for
                  its projected runtime licensing needs in the quantities and
                  for the prices set forth below:

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<CAPTION>

                       COPIES                     PER COPY PRICE                          MINIMUM PREPAYMENT

                      <S>                          <C>                                    <C>
                         5-9                        $140.00                                $   700.00
                       10-24                         130.00                                  1,300.00
                       25-49                         120.00                                  3,000.00
                         50+                         100.00                                  5,000.00
                         100                          75.00                                  7,500.00

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                  In order to receive the runtime pricing contained in this
                  paragraph 2(c)(iii), Licensee must prepay for its runtime
                  licenses in accordance with the above schedule PRIOR to
                  Deployment of the Application Software. To select a prepaid
                  Deployment option, Licensee shall send LEAD a purchase order
                  covering the desired number of copies of the Application
                  Software before making the Deployments covered by the purchase
                  order, and LEAD will generate an invoice covering the prepaid
                  copies. During the term hereof, Licensee may, from time to
                  time, issue multiple purchase orders for multiple quantity
                  orders. For example, if Licensee desires to use or distribute
                  fifty (50) copies of the Application Software, and would like
                  to take advantage of the One hundred Dollar ($100.00) per copy
                  rate, Licensee must prepay for its runtime licenses at the
                  rate of One hundred Dollars ($100.00) per copy ($5,000.00
                  prepayment), whereupon Licensee will have the right to use or
                  distribute up to fifty (50) copies of the Application
                  Software. Thereafter, from time to time, if Licensee desires
                  to use or distribute additional copy(s) of Application
                  Software and pay a rate of less than One hundred fifty Dollars
                  ($150.00) per copy for such additional copies, Licensee will
                  be required, prior to shipment or use of any such additional
                  copy(s) of Application Software, to prepay for such copy(s) by
                  selecting any of the above prepayment options and making the
                  applicable prepayment to LEAD. ANY DEPLOYMENT OF APPLICATION
                  SOFTWARE FOR WHICH RUNTIME LICENSING HAS NOT BEEN PREPAID
                  PRIOR TO DISTRIBUTION OR USE PURSUANT TO THE PROCEDURE
                  DESCRIBED ABOVE WILL CARRY A RUNTIME LICENSING OBLIGATION OF
                  ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($150.00) PER COPY TO BE REPORTED
                  AND PAID QUARTERLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 3 BELOW.

         3. REPORTING AND PAYMENT. Licensee must purchase a runtime license for
each Deployment of Application Software. For purposes hereof, a "Deployment of
Application Software" shall mean any and all copies of the Application Software
installed, used, distributed, leased, or sold by Licensee and any of its
customers, employees, distributors, resellers, affiliates or other channel
partners. If the Application Software is installed on a server or network by
Licensee or its customers, the number of Deployments that must be reported and
the number of runtime licenses that must be purchased hereunder will be the
number of computers that are permitted access to the Application Software via
the network or server. (However, see paragraph 4 hereof for server license
options.) No additional runtime licensing is required for updates and upgrades
to the Application Software distributed to users of the Application Software for
which runtime licenses have been paid and accounted for hereunder unless a major
new version of the Software (e. g. LEADTOOLS version 12, 13 etc.) is included in
the upgrade. If a major new version of the Software is included in an upgrade to
the Application Software, each user that is upgraded will be considered to be a
new Deployment for purposes of runtime license payment and reporting hereunder.
All amounts due hereunder are based on United States currency. Licensee agrees
to maintain full, clear and accurate records as to all Deployments of the
Application Software. Licensee will submit to LEAD, within thirty (30) days of
the close of each calendar quarter, a report in substantially the form of
EXHIBIT A setting forth the number of Deployments of Application Software made
during such quarter, and accompanying such report will be a check in the amount
of runtime licensing that is due, if any. If no Deployments have been made
during said quarter, Licensee will provide a certification so stating. Licensee
shall keep adequate records to


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accurately determine the payments due under this Agreement. LEAD shall have the
right, no more than once during any calendar year, to have an independent
certified public accountant or other disinterested third party inspect the
relevant records of Licensee on thirty (30) business days notice and during
regular business hours to verify the reports and payments required to be made
hereunder. Should an underpayment in excess of five percent (5%) be discovered,
Licensee shall pay the cost of the audit. If Licensee is more than thirty (30)
days late with any payment of amount due hereunder, interest will accrue from
the date due until paid at the lesser of (i) 1.5% per month or (ii) the maximum
rate of interest permitted by law.

         4. SERVER LICENSE. For $5,000, Licensee may purchase a server license.
If a server license is purchased, the Application Software may be installed on a
server (ASP, ISAPI etc.) and only computers that are using client software
containing LEAD's Redistributable Files (as such term is defined in the License
Agreement) that have access to the server will be considered Deployments
hereunder for runtime license payment and reporting purposes. If a server
license is purchased, no runtime license fees will be required for computers
accessing the Application Software on the server using third party client
software that does not include LEAD's Redistributable Files.

         5. NEW VERSIONS; UPGRADES. Minor version updates to the Software are
provided to Licensee free of charge via LEAD's web site. Development licenses
for major version upgrades will be LEAD's then prevailing upgrade price per
Licensee developer. Any prepaid runtime licenses that have not been deployed at
the time Licensee takes a license to a major new version of the Software will be
carried forward and may be applied to Deployments of Application Software made
with the major new version of the Software. Licensee will be under no obligation
to update previously deployed user or client licenses with the new version of
the Application Software that includes the major new version of the Software.

         6. ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPER SEATS. If Licensee desires to
develop additional end user applications over and above the single application
comprising the Application Software, Licensee may obtain a license to do so by
paying an additional development license fee equal to the initial license fee
invoiced pursuant to paragraph 2(a) hereof less twenty percent (20%) and this
Agreement will govern the payment of runtime license fees on such additional
applications. Additionally, if more than one (1) programmer wishes to use the
Software in connection with the development of the Application Software,
additional developer seats may be licensed for the initial license fee invoiced
pursuant to paragraph 2(a) hereof less twenty percent (20%).

         7. THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE. Portions of the Software are protected by
copyright and other proprietary rights of third party software vendors. Licensee
may be held directly responsible by third party vendors for acts relating to the
Software which are not authorized by this Agreement and for the License
Agreement.

         LEAD and Licensee have caused this Agreement to be executed in their
names by the following authorized representatives.

LEAD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.                     ____________________________________
                                               (Print Your Company Name Here)

By:Andrew L. Jiranek  /S/     (SEAL)        By:___________________________(SEAL)
                                               (Authorized Signature)
Title: Vice President & General Counsel     Title:___________________________
Date:                                       Date:_____________________


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                                    EXHIBIT A

                                DEPLOYMENT REPORT
                       (LEADTOOLS DOCUMENT EXPRESS SUITE)
                         PERIOD OF REPORT:______________

Name of Licensee:_____________________________     Telephone No:________________
(Company Name)
Your Name:       _____________________________     Fax No:______________________

Title or description of application(s)
developed with LEADTOOLS: ______________________________________

Number of developers currently
using LEADTOOLS: _________________________    Serial Number:____________________

I. OCR ENABLED DEPLOYMENTS
     PREPAID LICENSES (Complete only if you have prepaid runtime licenses to
     LEAD.  If you have not, go to the next section.)
     Balance of prepaid licenses:
                                      _____ copies @ $________     $___________

     Quantity of dispositions for reporting period:
                                        _____ copies @ $________    $___________

     Remaining prepaid balance:
                                       _____ copies @ $________     $___________

     NONPREPAID DEPLOYMENTS
     If runtime  licensing has not been prepaid or if the quantity  deployed
     exceeds the quantity  prepaid,  multiply number of deployments that are not
     prepaid by $150.00* to determine the amount due.

AMOUNT DUE:          $___________________ (CHECK ENCLOSED)

II. DEPLOYMENTS WITHOUT OCR
     PREPAID LICENSES (Complete only if you have prepaid runtime licenses to
     LEAD.  If you have not, go to the next section.)
     Balance of prepaid licenses:
                                         _____ copies @ $________   $___________

     Quantity of dispositions for reporting period:
                                         _____ copies @ $________   $___________

     Remaining prepaid balance:
                                         _____ copies @ $________   $___________

     NONPREPAID DEPLOYMENTS
     If runtime licensing has not been prepaid or if the quantity deployed
     exceeds the quantity prepaid,  multiply number of deployments that are not
     prepaid by $50.00* to determine the amount of royalty due.

AMOUNT DUE:          $___________________ (CHECK ENCLOSED)

Note: *If your agreement specifies a per copy rate other than $150.00 (or $50
      for non-OCR enabled  stations),  please use the rate specified by your
      agreement in calculating the total royalty due.

The undersigned warrants that the information contained in this report is true,
complete and accurate in all respects.

By:_____________________________________            Date:______________________
  (Signature-Authorized Representative)


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