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                                                                   PRESS RELEASE


Contacts:
John R. Shaw                                                    Andrew McCaskill
Vice President, Marketing                                Media Contact for Mitek
858.513.4600                                                        678.781.7210
jshaw@miteksystems.com                                   andrew@williammills.com



              Mitek Completes $1.5 Million Investment from Harland


POWAY, Calif., May 10, 2005 - Mitek Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: MITK;
www.miteksystems.com) today announced that the Company and John H. Harland
Company (NYSE: JH; www.harland.net) closed the second and final round of a sale
of Mitek's common stock and warrants pursuant to the previously-disclosed
Securities Purchase Agreement entered into between Mitek and Harland on February
22, 2005. In this second round, Harland acquired 1,071,428 shares of Mitek's
common stock and 160,714 Mitek warrants for a purchase price of $750,000.

         Mitek completed the transaction based on the results of a special
stockholders meeting held on May 5, 2005. A majority of shareholders approved to
amend the Company's Certificate of Incorporation to increase the authorized
number of shares of its common stock from 20 million to 40 million shares.

         "With the completion of this investment and the previously-disclosed
sale of CheckQuest, we added $2.5 million in new cash to our balance sheet in
the last 80 days," Mitek's President and CEO, James B. DeBello said. "These were
major steps in our plans to continue the growth of our next generation of
sophisticated identity verification and document recognition software."

         Harland previously announced that it is partnering with Mitek to
introduce self-authenticating checks for preventing the most difficult-to-catch
check fraud - the forgery of the maker's signature. Harland will validate the
authenticity of the maker's signature and the physical check document using
Mitek's sophisticated image processing, data encoding and encryption, and
identity verification software. Financial institutions, merchants and consumers
lose billions of dollars every year as a result of lost, stolen or counterfeit
checks cashed or presented by forgers.

About Mitek Systems

Mitek Systems (OTCBB: MITK; www.miteksystems.com) is a leading provider of
advanced recognition software used by financial institutions for identity
verification and document processing, used in the processing of over 8 billion
transactions per year.
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Mitek Completes $1.5 Million Investment from Harland
May 10, 2005


Forward-Looking Statement Disclosure

The matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainty. Forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, statements relating to the future prospects of Mitek's development
and marketing activities with Harland and the future growth prospects of Mitek.
Actual results could differ from such forward-looking statements. There can be
no assurance that Mitek will on or achieve results set forth herein. Mitek and
Mitek Systems are registered trademarks of Mitek Systems, Inc. All other product
or company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.




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