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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004

OR

For the transition period from              to             

Commission File Number: 0-20981

DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (760) 602-1400

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Common Stock, $.001 par value per share

(Title of Class)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

The aggregate market value of the common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold at June 30, 2004 was $15,358,344.

As of March 24, 2005, there were 4,113,236 shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Part III incorporates certain information by reference from Registrant’s definitive proxy statement for its 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 28, 2005, which proxy statement is expected to be filed no later than 120 days after the close of Registrant’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2004.

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A WARNING ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

We make forward-looking statements in this annual report on Form 10-K that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include information about possible or assumed future results of our financial condition, operations, plans, objectives and performance. Additionally, when we use the words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate” or similar expressions, we are making forward-looking statements. Many possible events or factors could affect our future financial results and performance. This could cause our results or performance to differ materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements. You should consider these risks when you review this document, along with the following possible events or factors:

Foreseeable risks and uncertainties are described elsewhere in this report and in detail under “Item 1. Business – Risk Factors.” You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s analysis only as of the date of this annual report. We undertake no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision of, or otherwise update, the forward-looking statements.

PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

Document Sciences Corporation develops, markets and supports a family of Dynamic Content Publishing software products used primarily for business to customer communications. Dynamic content publishing has become increasingly important as more companies benefit from automating the generation of personalized documents that include the precise assembly and layout of personal financial data, regulated content and in-context one-to-one marketing information. Our products facilitate an important form of communication between organizations and their customers by employing enterprise data assets and business compliance rules to produce high quality, regulated and highly-personalized documents that are ready to print in high-volume or on-demand, to email or to distribute over the web in real-time using HTML or Adobe Systems’ (Adobe) Portable Document Format (PDF^®).

Using modern enterprise-class architecture standards, our new generation xPression^™ product line enables scalable dynamic content publishing solutions across many industries, including insurance, financial services, managed healthcare, government and commercial outsourcing. Our entire product portfolio, including our previous generation Autograph^™ product family, is licensed to approximately 565 customers worldwide who collectively produce over an estimated one billion personalized documents per month, operating on computing environments ranging from traditional enterprise mainframe systems, distributed client/server PC and UNIX configurations, to modern highly-scalable J2EE application server platforms.

Company Formation

We were incorporated in Delaware in October 1991 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation (Xerox). Following our initial public offering of stock in September 1996, Xerox ownership was reduced to approximately 62%. As a result of our tender offer and our exercise of an option to purchase additional shares from Xerox, in April 2001, Xerox’s ownership interest was reduced to 19.9%, and then on November 18, 2003, we purchased Xerox’s remaining shares in a private transaction.

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Available Information

This annual report, and each of our other periodic and current reports, including any amendments thereto, are available, free of charge, on our website at www.docscience.com, as soon as reasonably practical after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference in this report and should not be considered part of this report. In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission website, www.sec.gov, contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information about us.

Products

Our new generation xPression product line addresses a major functional area within the growing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) arena: Dynamic Content Publishing. In 2004, we released the second major version of xPression, including our new higher-performance composition engine, and this has resulted in improved xPression sales. In addition, all of our software products can be complemented by our professional services organization, including services provided by our China-based Document Factory, thereby enabling the delivery of cost-effective fully-integrated functional solutions to our worldwide customer base.

We generally license our products for an upfront initial license fee and an annual renewal license and support fee, usually 20% of the initial license fee, which is required for the initial year and subsequent years. We also offer the right to license for perpetual use of our products and, in these cases, annual maintenance agreements are typically charged at 20% of the list price of the initial license fees.

Autograph to xPression Transition

From its introduction in 2002 through 2004, we have installed our new generation xPression products in over 30 major accounts worldwide – new accounts including competitive installations, as well as previous generation Autograph accounts. These installations validate our ability to migrate Autograph, as well as competitive accounts, to xPression using a scalable and reliable delivery model. We have recently introduced packaged offerings consisting of additional software and services for further facilitating the migration of our existing Autograph customers, as well as from select competitive products, to our xPression product family. During 2005, we anticipate actively marketing these packaged offerings to generate additional account migrations.

Dynamic Content Publishing

Our xPression product line provides dynamic content publishing capabilities on an open J2EE architecture. As such, our xPression products are developed in Java, adhering to J2EE open standards for compatibility with application server platforms such as IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic. Our xPression dynamic content publishing components can also be tightly integrated with other enterprise applications to extend the existing capabilities of ECM platforms, customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other enterprise technology assets. The xPression product line is based on open XML standards for open data interchange, and on Unicode text encoding for worldwide language support. These characteristics are attractive to customers seeking inter-operability between their enterprise applications and adherence to open standards.

xPression Server and Client products. The xPression Server manages the robust content creation and document assembly process required in complex, regulated text-intensive documents such as proposals, contracts, policies and customer correspondence. xPression Server supports several client application that provide user interfaces for systems management (xPression Admin), personalized document design (xPression Design), interactive real-time document generation (xPression Response) and collaborative document revision and approval (xPression Revise). Customers can configure their xPression installations with any number of server and client products as required by the application type and performance requirements.

xPression Admin manages all aspects of the xPression configuration including access security, customer data sources and mapping, document production and multi-channel output environments. xPression Admin is designed for use by the system administrators familiar with the overall operating environment. Conversely, xPression Design is designed for non-technical business users responsible for the creation and management of personalized document applications. This is accomplished using a hierarchy of content items that is created and managed using Microsoft Corporation’s (Microsoft) Word^®, the industry-standard authoring and design tool for regulated documents such as contracts and correspondence. The support of open tools such as Microsoft Word enables our customers to redeploy the development and maintenance of applications from their generally higher-cost IT department to the line-of-businesses responsible for the application.

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xPression Design manages and tracks the personalized document applications and their content items using a secure multi-user environment that supports powerful user-definable attributes (e.g. language, jurisdiction, affectivity, etc), multi-level revision control, multi-level approval workflows and advanced content searching. xPression Design enables the definition of simple or complex content assembly and business rules that control content selection and personalization based on unique customer data. Once a personalized document application has been created, validated, and approved, xPression Server manages the subsequent document assembly and publishing processes. These can execute in a high volume production mode, or as real-time, on-demand transactions. By leveraging the benefits of application servers, xPression Server is highly-scalable and supports multi-threaded clustered configurations, providing high-volume as well as high-concurrency performance.

xPression Response is a web browser based out-of-the-box client application that enables the on-demand generation of customer correspondence and other documents created using xPression Design. xPression Response features an integrated Java editor that can be used to make additional manual or exception changes to pre-assembled documents. xPression Response also supports web-based change tracking, approval and workflow processes to ensure document integrity and compliance. xPression Response can be integrated with a CRM or other correspondence management or call center system of choice.

xPression Revise provides more sophisticated capabilities for managing complex contract applications that require re-issuance control and a level of collaboration. In 2005, we anticipate introducing additional client product capabilities.

Finally, xPression provides extensible capabilities in the increasingly important areas of integration and connectivity using xPression Framework. Because of its open architecture and its adherence to XML standards, xPression can be tightly integrated with a wide variety of line-of-business applications such as insurance and financial administration systems, business workflow systems, as well as enterprise ECM platforms. To further our capabilities in the connectivity area, we also support web services as well as XML dialects such as the insurance-industry ACORD standard. Furthermore, we enhance our technical connectivity by developing strong partnerships with other open system providers. In 2005, we anticipate introducing additional enterprise connectivity capabilities.

Composition Engine. The xPression product family supports our core CompuSet composition engine, thus enabling and facilitating the migration of existing Autograph applications to xPression. CompuSet automates document composition using data and variable content tagged in a manner conceptually and syntactically similar to HTML or XML, the web tagging standards, and styled using specifications conceptually similar to CSS and XSL, the web styling standards. In a fully automated fashion, CompuSet transforms the tagged data, the style specifications and the variable content into high-quality electronic documents that are assembled and composed at rates in excess of 50 pages per second, depending on the computing platform and document complexity. The document composition features are rich and extensive, including the automatic generation of multi-dimensional dynamic data driven graphics, and the support of full color text and images.

The composition process is further optimized for print, email and/or web media for multi-channel distribution. CompuSet supports a number of popular Page Description Languages (PDLs) for subsequent printing, electronic distribution and/or archive storage for future retrieval and viewing. These PDLs provide device-specific instructions for rendering text, forms, images and graphics into printable streams or into electronic documents. Output processing capabilities include inline output stream manipulation for splitting, merging, re-sequencing, sorting, bundling and bar coding. These features are necessary for postal optimization, for the support of finishing equipment without further post-processing and for multi-channel applications that require both print and electronic (email) distribution. The PDL formats currently supported are Xerox Metacode, International Business Machines Corporation’s (IBM) AFPDS®, Hewlett-Packard Company’s PCL® and Adobe’s PostScript®, including Xerox VIPP extensions for high-volume full-color production on Xerox DocuColor and iGen product lines, and well as Adobe PDF.

In 2004, we introduced xPression Publish, our new Java-based composition engine, as part of xPression 2.0. The design of the new composition engine incorporates the majority of features available in our CompuSet engine, as well as significant extensions in the areas of multi-frame page layout, multi-language support including support for double-byte Asian languages and scalable multi-threaded performance. The new xPression Publish engine supports higher volume print applications as well as higher throughput real-time transactional eBusiness applications. In 2005,

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we plan on further enhancing this engine, including providing incremental Output Processing functionality. We also anticipate introducing new application design tools that take full advantage of the capabilities of our new publishing engine.

Professional Services

In addition to our software products, we provide a comprehensive suite of professional services that can assist customers in the implementation of mission-critical dynamic content publishing applications. Professional services include on-site software installation, consulting services, customer training programs and telephone support programs. Our consulting services are currently focused on assisting in the sale of high margin initial software licenses by providing project management, requirements analysis, application design and development services. The capacity of our domestic professional services has been extended through the use of our cost effective China-based Document Factory team.

Our consulting services can be also provided in conjunction with our system integration partners. In addition to consulting services, we provide introductory and advanced-level education classes for our xPression and Autograph products at our headquarters in San Diego, our office in Milwaukee and at customer sites. We believe that the use of our professional services enables customers to deploy our dynamic content publishing products more rapidly and more cost-effectively. In 2005, we anticipate putting incremental emphasis on the delivery of professional services in support of our packaged xPression migration offerings.

Development Outsourcing Services

In addition to our software products and professional services, we also provide cost effective development outsourcing services through our subsidiary’s, Objectiva Software Solutions Inc. (Objectiva), software engineering team based in Beijing, China. These software engineering services include project management, design and architecture, prototyping, coding, testing and productizing. Our Objectiva software engineering team has achieved CMM Level 3 certification, a recognized global standard for quality service delivery, as well as other vendor specific recognitions such as Microsoft MVP certified engineers. In 2005, we anticipate continued investment and growth in our core Objectiva software engineering outsourcing services.

Sales and Marketing

Our sales and marketing organization targets markets that require dynamic content publishing, including high volume, high quality document personalization. We currently license our products using a combination of direct sales and alternative channels. In North America, we market our products primarily through a direct sales force that manages our existing base of corporate accounts, as well as targets new accounts in select market segments. Our sales account executives are provided with pre-sales technical support through qualified solution analysts. Account executives and solution analysts are located throughout North America to provide optimal coverage. Outside of North America, we distribute our software products through value added resellers (VARs) in Australia, South America and Asia. Our subsidiary, Document Sciences Europe, markets our products in Europe, Africa and the Middle East by providing VAR channel management and support and by defining European market and product requirements.

We are continuing to increase both our product offerings and markets through joint marketing, sales and distribution and development relationships with other major companies. Current relationships include formal and informal marketing and sales alliances with EMC Corporation, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), Edgewater Technology Inc., IBM Inc. and Xerox Global Services. These relationships provide qualified sales leads for our products and extend our sales coverage and networking capabilities. In addition, we also support partner relationships with complementary technology companies such as EMC Documentum and FileNet, Inc. as well as numerous insurance admin system vendors such as Fiserv, Harlosh, Solcorp and Worldgroup. We participate in joint marketing events with our key partners whenever appropriate and feasible. Furthermore, we actively market our products and solutions at industry focused trade shows, through focused regional seminars and through a variety of web marketing mechanisms, including webinars.

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Research and Development

We continue to enhance our product offerings, engaging key customers and prospects to identify requirements and to prioritize specific product features. We also engage industry and technology analysts, and key partners to understand existing market trends, new target markets, and overall technology directions. Our 2005 development roadmap addresses key requirements for tight integration into emerging ECM Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA) models, as well as new target markets identified through our ongoing planning process.

In general, our product development strategy is based on delivering dynamic content publishing solutions for specific types of document applications in one or more vertical markets or industries, or in identifying more horizontal applications that can be sold across many market segments. A cross-functional team is responsible for delivering each focused offering. We use a documented business planning and product delivery process to guide our product development and delivery activities throughout the year. We also employ rapid prototyping to validate new product concepts, and agile development methodologies to be responsive in a rapidly-evolving technology environment.

During 2004, we acquired Objectiva, a China-based development outsourcing company that provided us with cost-effective software development capabilities. The acquisition of Objectiva has significantly increased our software development capacity, including our ability to respond more rapidly to unanticipated requirements driven by new technologies, new partnerships, or new business opportunities.

Our recent xPression 2.0 release continues to build on our xPression family of products. These product offerings adhere to open standards for large-scale systems integration such as J2EE and XML. By developing products using open standards we can expand the delivery of our products through and with large systems integrators and other channels. By offering application migration paths wherever possible we also enable our Autograph customers to purchase and migrate to our newer xPression offerings.

We continue to maintain and enhance our Autograph product line for operation on traditional platforms such as mainframe environments. These well-established products, including DLS and VC Pro, are maintained by teams that respond to customer requests for defect corrections and feature enhancements. These products are proven and feature rich, and we do not anticipate the need to significantly enhance them during 2005.

We expect to continue enhancing our existing product portfolio and to develop new products, particularly as they relate to multi-channel applications, including electronic (email) distribution and web portals. Our development expenditures continue to be a major focus of our resources. Such expenditures, not including amounts capitalized, were $7.0 million, $6.3 million and $5.8 million in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively.

We can make no assurance that we will be successful in developing, introducing and marketing new products on a timely and cost-effective basis, if at all, or that such new products will achieve market acceptance. See “Risk Factors – Our growth depends on market acceptance of our existing products, enhancements to existing products and our introduction of new products.”

Competition

The market for dynamic content publishing products is intensely competitive, subject to rapid change and significantly affected by new product introductions and other market activities of industry participants. Our software products are targeted at document intensive organizations that require the ability to produce large quantities of personalized documents in paper or electronic form. We face direct and indirect competition from a broad range of competitors who offer a variety of products and solutions to our current and potential customers. Our principal competition currently comes from systems developed in-house by the internal MIS departments of large organizations where there is a reluctance to commit the time and effort necessary to convert their existing dynamic content publishing processes to our dynamic content publishing software.

We also face competition from DocuCorp International, Inc. and InSystems Technologies, Inc. in the insurance industry; Metavante in banking and financial services; Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, Inc.; Exstream Software, Inc. and numerous other smaller competitors. Several of our competitors have longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources, greater name recognition and a larger installed base of customers than we do. We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our market include product performance and functionality, ease of use, scalability, operating across multiple computer and operating system platforms, product and company reputation, client service and support and price.

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It is also possible that we will face competition from new competitors. These include large independent software companies offering personal computer-based application software solutions, such as Microsoft and Adobe, and from large corporations providing database and content management software solutions, such as Oracle Corporation. In addition, Xerox or IBM, either directly or through affiliated entities, could become large competitors. Moreover, as the market for dynamic content publishing software develops, a number of these or other companies with significantly greater resources than ours could attempt to enter or increase their presence in the dynamic content publishing market by either acquiring or forming strategic alliances with our competitors or by increasing their focus on the industry. In addition, current and potential competitors have established or may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to increase the ability of their products to address the needs of our current and prospective customers. It is possible that new competitors or alliances among competitors may emerge and rapidly acquire significant market share. Increased competition may result in price reductions, reduced gross margins and loss of market share, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Patents, Licenses and Proprietary Rights

Our success is dependent, in part, on our ability to protect our proprietary technology. We rely primarily on a combination of copyright and trademark laws, trade secrets, confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary rights. We seek to protect our software, documentation and other written materials under trade secret and copyright laws. However, these afford only limited protection. We presently have no patents or patent applications pending. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. See “Risk Factors – Our growth is dependent upon successfully protecting our proprietary rights.”

In addition, we also rely on certain software that we license from third parties, including software that is integrated with internally developed software and used in our products to perform key functions. There can be no assurances that such firms will remain in business, that they will continue to support their products or that their products will otherwise continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable terms. The loss or inability to maintain any of these software licenses could result in delays or reductions in product shipments until equivalent software can be developed, licensed and integrated, which would adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

Customers

We derived 17%, 21% and 16% of our revenues through Xerox and its affiliates in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. As a result, discontinuation of agreements and other business transactions that may adversely impact our relationship with Xerox could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Employees

As of December 31, 2004, we had 231 employees including 80 in professional services and customer support, 35 in sales and marketing, 94 in research and development and 22 in finance and administration. None of our employees are represented by labor unions. We have experienced no work stoppages and believe our relationship with our employees is good. Competition for qualified personnel in the industry in which we compete is intense. We believe that our future success will depend in part on our continued ability to attract, hire and retain qualified personnel.

Financial Information about Segments and Geographic Areas

The information regarding revenues and operating profit by reportable segments and revenues from unaffiliated customers by geographic region is set forth at the end of this annual report under the heading “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements – 3. Geographic Information” and is incorporated herein by reference.

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Risk Factors

The following is a discussion of certain factors that currently impact or may impact our business, operating results and/or financial condition. Anyone making an investment decision with respect to our common stock or other securities is cautioned to carefully consider these factors. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, results of future operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. In such case, the trading price of our common stock could decline and you may lose part or all of your investment.

Our quarterly results fluctuate significantly and we may not be able to grow our business.

Our total revenues and operating results can vary, sometimes substantially, from quarter to quarter, and we expect them to vary significantly in the future. Additionally, our revenues and operating results are difficult to forecast, and our future results will depend upon many factors, including the following:

Our initial license fee revenues mainly depend on when orders are received and shipped. However, because of our sales model, our customers’ implementation schedule and the complexity of the implementation process, revenue from some software shipments may not be recognized in the same quarter as the shipment occurs. Our operating expenses are primarily based on anticipated revenue levels. Since a high percentage of those expenses are relatively fixed, a delay in the recognition of revenue from license transactions could cause significant variations in operating results from quarter to quarter, and we may sustain losses as a result. To the extent such expenses precede, and/or are not subsequently followed by, increased revenues, our operating results could be materially adversely affected.

As a result of these factors, results from operations for any quarter are subject to significant variation, and we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations are not necessarily meaningful. Accordingly, you should not rely upon them as an indication of our future performance. Furthermore, our operating results in future quarters may fall below the expectations of market analysts and investors. If this occurs, the price of our common stock would likely be materially adversely affected.

Our growth depends on market acceptance of our existing products, enhancements to existing products and our introduction of new products.

Our future business, operating results and financial condition depends upon market acceptance of our existing products, as well as our ability to respond to emerging industry standards and practices and to develop new products that address the future needs of our target markets. Our Autograph family of products has been applied mainly to document automation applications producing paper-based documents. We have started to extend our core technology to the Internet, intranets and commercial on-line services. However, we cannot assure you that we will be successful

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in developing, introducing and marketing new products or product enhancements, including new products or the extension of existing products for the Internet, intranets and commercial on-line services, on a timely and cost effective basis, if at all. In addition, we cannot assure you that our newer products, such as xPression, or enhancements to existing products will adequately meet the requirements of the marketplace or achieve market acceptance. Moreover, delays in our commercial shipments of new products or enhancements may result in client dissatisfaction and a delay or loss of product revenues.

If for technological or other reasons we are unable to develop and introduce new products or enhancements of existing products in a timely manner in response to changing market conditions or client requirements, then our business, operating results and financial condition will be materially adversely affected. In addition, we cannot assure you that our existing products, new products or new versions of our existing products will achieve market acceptance. In order to provide our customers with integrated product solutions, our future success will also depend in part upon our ability to maintain and enhance relationships with our technology partners.

Longer than expected sales cycles and implementation periods have and may continue to affect our revenues and operating results.

The licensing of our software products is often an enterprise-wide decision by prospective customers and generally involves a sales cycle of three months to more than one year in order to educate our prospective customers regarding the use and benefits of our products. In addition, the implementation of our products by customers involves a significant commitment of their resources over an extended period of time and is commonly associated with substantial customer business process reengineering efforts. Sales of our enterprise-wide xPression product line often involve many participants in the corporate decision-making process. Additionally, we have experienced and may, from time to time, continue to experience defects in our software which cause implementation problems and affect our sales and our sales cycle. For these and other reasons, our sales cycles and customer implementation periods are subject to a number of significant delays over which we have little or no control. Any delay in the sale or customer implementation of a limited number of license transactions could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations and cause our operating results to vary significantly from quarter to quarter.

We currently derive a significant portion of our revenues through Xerox.

We currently have a variety of contractual and informal relationships with Xerox and affiliates of Xerox, including a cooperative marketing agreement, a transfer and license agreement and various distribution agreements. We rely on these relationships and agreements for a significant portion of our total revenues. Revenues derived from relationships with Xerox and affiliates of Xerox accounted for approximately $4.0 million, $4.3 million and $3.8 million in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively, representing 17%, 21% and 16% of our total revenues, respectively.

In November 2003, we paid $2.7 million to Xerox to repurchase the remaining 740,024 shares of Document Sciences’ common stock owned by Xerox. Since Xerox no longer has an equity interest in us, there may be less incentive in continuing to do business with us at the same level. Though we intend to continue our existing relationships with Xerox, our strategy has been, and continues to be, to lessen our dependence on Xerox. However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to do so and, because of our current level of dependence on Xerox, there can be no assurance that our plans to become more independent will not adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Our failure to maintain these relationships or to establish new relationships in the future could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

There can be no assurance that existing and potential customers will continue to do business with us because of these relationships or our historical ties with Xerox and its affiliates. Xerox has strategic alliances and other business relationships with other companies who supply software and services used in high volume electronic publishing applications and who now are, or in the future may become, our competitors. There can be no assurance that Xerox or one of its affiliated companies will not engage in business that directly competes with us. In addition, Xerox has ongoing internal development activities that could in the future lead to products that compete with us. Xerox could in the future expand these relationships or enter into additional ones, and as a result our business could be materially adversely affected.

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Our growth depends on our ability to compete successfully against current and future competitors.

The market for our dynamic content publishing products is intensely competitive. We face competition from a broad range of competitors, many of whom have greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. Our principal competition currently comes from systems developed in-house by the internal MIS departments of large organizations and direct competition from numerous software vendors, including Docucorp International, Inc., InSystems Technologies, Inc., Group 1 Software, Inc., Exstream Software, Inc. and Metavante Corporation. We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our market include product performance and functionality, ease of use, scalability, operating across multiple computer and operating system platforms, product and company reputation, client service and support and price. Although we believe we currently compete favorably with respect to such factors, we can not assure you that we will be able to maintain our competitive position against current and future competitors, especially those with greater financial, technical and marketing resources than us, or that we will be successful in the face of increasing competition from new products, new solutions introduced by existing competitors or by new companies entering the market.

The success of our recent acquisition depends on successful integration.

We may not be able to successfully integrate Objectiva’s operations, personnel or products or we may incur unanticipated costs with the integration of Objectiva into Document Sciences. The acquisition of Objectiva could result in the diversion of capital and management’s attention away from other business issues and opportunities. In addition, our acquisition may not be successful in achieving our desired strategic objectives which could cause our business to suffer. If we fail to successfully integrate this acquisition, our business could be materially adversely affected.

Our operating results are substantially dependent on sales of a small number of products in highly concentrated industries.

We derived 45%, 42% and 13% of our initial license revenues from our CompuSet, xPression and DLS product lines in 2004, respectively. As a result, factors that may adversely impact the pricing of or demand for these products, such as competition from other products, negative publicity or obsolescence of the hardware or software environments in which our products run, could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Our financial performance will depend significantly on the successful development, introduction and customer acceptance of new and enhanced versions of our xPression software, as well as continued customer acceptance of CompuSet, DLS and related products.

Licenses to end users in the insurance, finance and print service industries in the United States accounted for 70%, 20% and 6% of initial license revenues in 2004, respectively. Our future success will depend on our ability to continue to successfully market our products in these and other industries. Our failure to do so would have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our growth is dependent upon successfully focusing our distribution channels.

To grow our business, we must streamline our worldwide sales and distribution channels by focusing on key target industry market segments where our current and planned products can enjoy a significant competitive advantage and high market demand. We also must leverage our existing relationships with Xerox and other partners by launching targeted joint marketing and value added reseller programs and by introducing new product offerings that are optimized for selected target markets and marketing channels. Additionally, we must form additional partnerships with system integrators and consultants in order to broaden our capacity to deliver complete dynamic content publishing solutions that incorporate significant services content, while also maintaining our core domain expertise. We cannot assure you that we will be able to successfully streamline and focus our worldwide channels, leverage our existing relationships or form new alliances. If we fail to do so, it will have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our products may suffer from defects or errors.

Software products as complex as those we offer, may contain undetected defects or errors when first introduced or as new versions are released. As a result, we could in the future lose or delay recognition of revenues as a result of software errors or defects. In addition, our products are typically intended for use in applications that may be critical to a customer’s business. As a result, we expect that our customers and potential customers have a greater sensitivity to product defects than the general market for software products. We have experienced defects in connection with the

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introduction of our xPression product line and we have worked to address this problem, but we cannot assure you that, despite our testing as well as testing by current and potential customers, errors will not be found in our existing products or new products or releases. Defects discovered after the commencement of commercial shipments, can result in any of the following:

Maintaining our professional services expertise is necessary for our future growth.

We are continuing our focus on the consulting services component of our professional services to assist customers in the planning and implementation of enterprise-wide, mission-critical dynamic content publishing applications. This strategy is dependent on retaining and hiring professionals to perform these consulting services. Should we be unable to maintain the necessary services workforce, our business and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.

We are exposed to risks associated with international operations.

Our revenues from export sales accounted for 23%, 27% and 23% of our total revenues in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively.

We license our products in Europe through VARs and to a much lesser extent, direct sales. Revenues generated by these activities were $3.2 million, $3.2 million and $3.4 million in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively.

Our wholly owned subsidiary, Objectiva, develops, markets and supports our products in Asia. As of December 31, 2004, they had 110 employees.

In Australia, Canada and Latin America, our products are distributed and/or supported by Xerox affiliates and also by direct sale in Canada. In China, our products are distributed and/or supported by our subsidiary, Objectiva. Revenues generated in these regions were $2.1 million, $2.3 million and $2.0 million in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively.

In order to successfully expand export sales, we must establish additional foreign operations, hire additional personnel and develop relationships with additional international resellers. If we are unable to do so in a timely manner, our growth in international export sales could be limited, and our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. In addition, we cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain or increase international market demand for our products.

Additional risks inherent in our international business activities include:

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A portion of our business is conducted in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar, primarily the Euro and the Chinese Yuan. Although exchange rate fluctuations have not had a significant impact on us, fluctuations in the value of the currencies in which we conduct our business relative to the U.S. Dollar could cause currency transaction gains and losses in future periods. We do not currently engage in currency hedging transactions, and we cannot assure you that fluctuations in currency exchange rates in the future will not have a material adverse impact on our international revenues and our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our business is dependent on the market for dynamic content publishing software.

The market for dynamic content publishing software is intensely competitive, highly fragmented and subject to rapid change. We cannot assure you that the market for dynamic content publishing software will continue to grow or that, if it does grow, organizations will adopt our products. We have spent, and intend to continue to spend, significant resources educating potential customers about the benefits of our products. However, we cannot assure you that such expenditures will enable our products to achieve further market acceptance, and if the dynamic content publishing software market develops more slowly than we currently anticipate, our business, operating results and financial condition would be materially adversely affected.

In addition, the commercial market for dynamic content publishing of electronic documents designed for use with the Internet, intranets and commercial on-line services has only recently begun to develop, and the success of our products designed for this market will depend in part on their compatibility with such services. It is difficult to predict whether the demand for related products and services would increase or decrease in the future. Since the increased commercial use of the Internet, intranets and commercial on-line services could require substantial modification and customization of certain of our products and services as well as the introduction of new products and services, we cannot assure you that we will be able to effectively or successfully compete in the future in this market.

Our ability to manage future change will affect our business.

Our ability to compete effectively and to manage future change will require us to continue to improve our financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures on a timely basis and to expand, train and manage our work force. We cannot assure you that we will be able to do so successfully. Our failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our executive officers and certain key personnel are critical to our business, and these officers and key personnel may not remain with us in the future.

Our future performance depends in significant part upon the continued service of our key technical, sales and senior management personnel. The loss of the services of one or more of our executive officers could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Our future success also depends on our continuing ability to attract and retain highly qualified product development, sales and management personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to retain our key employees or that we will be able to attract or retain other highly qualified product development, sales and managerial personnel in the future.

Our business is dependent upon successfully protecting our proprietary rights.

We rely on a combination of copyright and trademark laws, trade secrets, confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary rights. Despite these protective measures, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy portions of our products or use information we consider proprietary. Policing unauthorized use of our products is difficult and, while we are unable to determine the extent to which piracy of our software products exists, we expect software piracy to be a persistent problem. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States. We cannot assure you that our means of protecting our proprietary rights will be adequate or that our competitors will not independently develop similar technology.

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We are not aware of any infringement of our products upon the proprietary rights of third parties. However, we cannot assure you that third parties will not claim infringement by us with respect to current or future products. We expect that software product developers will increasingly be subject to infringement claims as the number of products and competitors in our industry segment grows and the functionality of products in different industry segments overlaps. Any such claims, with or without merit, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, cause product shipment delays or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. Such royalty or licensing agreements, if required, may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all, which could have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our failure to adequately limit our exposure to product liability claims may adversely affect us.

Our license agreements with our customers typically contain provisions designed to limit our exposure to potential product liability claims. However, it is possible that the limitation of liability provisions contained in our license agreements may not be effective under the laws of certain jurisdictions. Although we have not experienced any product liability claims to date, sale and support of our products may entail the risk of such claims in the future. A successful product liability claim brought against us or a claim arising as a result of our professional services could have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results and financial condition.

If any of these events occur, it would have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results and financial condition.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

We lease approximately 21,300 square feet for our principal administrative, sales, marketing, training and research and development facility in Carlsbad, California. This lease expires on February 28, 2005 and has been extended two additional months. We have signed a new lease for a new building in Carlsbad for approximately 17,100 square feet that will expire June 15, 2011. Our regional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin occupies approximately 3,400 square feet of office space pursuant to a lease expiring on October 31, 2008. Our subsidiary in France occupies approximately 2,200 square feet of office space with a lease expiring on April 15, 2005. In addition, our subsidiary in China occupies approximately 12,000 square feet of office space expiring May 20, 2009. Sales representatives and field technical support personnel operate from their homes. We believe that the current properties that we lease are adequate for our current needs.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

In the ordinary course of business, we may become involved in legal proceedings from time to time. As of March 24, 2005, we were not a party, nor was our property subject, to any material pending legal proceedings.

ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004.

PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Our common stock is presently traded on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the symbol “DOCX.” The following table sets forth the range of high and low sales prices of our common stock for the periods indicated, as reported on The Nasdaq National Market System. Such quotations represent inter-dealer prices without retail markup, markdown or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.

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We had 4,113,236 shares outstanding and 105 record holders of our common stock as of March 24, 2005. Historically, we have not paid dividends on our common stock and do not anticipate paying dividends in the foreseeable future.

The following table provides information about purchases of equity securities by us or affiliated purchases during the quarter ended December 31, 2004:

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The following table presents selected financial data of Document Sciences Corporation. This historical data should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes thereto in Item 8 and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Item 7 in this annual report on Form 10-K.

The decrease in the balance sheet items from 2000 to 2001 was due to our tender offer completed in April 2001 where we purchased 6,000,000 shares of our outstanding common stock for $2.00 per share. The decrease in the balance sheet items from 2002 to 2003 was primarily due to our November 2003 purchase of 740,024 shares of our outstanding common stock for $2.7 million and a decrease in accounts receivable of $1.9 million. Working capital was also affected by a $667,100 increase in deferred revenue. The increase in total assets and stockholders’ equity from 2003 to 2004 was primarily due to the issuance of 629,793 shares of our common stock in conjunction with our July 2004 purchase of Objectiva.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATION

Except for the historical information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ substantially from those described below, including those risks described in the section entitled, “Business—Risk Factors,” and elsewhere in this annual report. Our discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operation of Document Sciences and its subsidiaries should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes included in Item 8.

Critical Accounting Policies

Our discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of operations are based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates and judgments, including those related to revenue recognition, computer software costs, goodwill, allowance for doubtful accounts and valuation allowance for net deferred tax assets. We base our estimates on historical and anticipated results and trends and on assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, including assumptions as to future events. These estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. By their nature, estimates are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty. Actual results may differ from our estimates. We believe that the following critical accounting policies and assumptions may involve a higher degree of judgment and complexity than others.

Revenue Recognition. We recognize revenue in accordance with Statement of Position (SOP) 97-2, Software Revenue Recognition, and Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 104, Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements. Initial license fees are recognized when a contract exists, the fee is fixed and determinable, software delivery has occurred and collection of the receivable is deemed probable. We use the residual method to recognize revenue for all of our license models. Our contracts specifically state the amount of initial and annual license fees due for each type of software licensed. If an undelivered element of the arrangement exists under the license arrangement, revenue is deferred based on vendor-specific objective evidence of the fair value of the undelivered element. If vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value does not exist for all undelivered elements, all revenue is deferred until sufficient evidence exists or all elements have been delivered. We recognize revenue on transactions with payment terms less than twelve months from the contract date, if we have a history of successfully collecting from the specific customer without providing concessions. Amounts billed or payments received in advance of revenue recognition are recorded as deferred revenue.

Revenues generated from consulting services are recognized as the related services are performed and collectibility is deemed probable. However, when such consulting services are deemed to be essential to the functionality of the delivered software product, revenue from the entire arrangement is recognized on a percentage of completion method or not until the contract is completed in accordance with SOP 81-1, Accounting for Performance of Construction-Type and Certain Production-Type Contracts, and Accounting Research Bulletin (ARB) No. 45, Long-Term Construction-Type Contracts. We measure progress under the percentage of completion method, depending on how the contract language is written, either by using the percentage of total project hours completed or by the completion of phases in the consulting project. Because (i) the phases of our consulting projects are generally not of great duration (2-6 weeks on average) and (ii) we have a variety of projects progressing at the same time, we believe that there are very limited circumstances where materially different amounts would be reported under different conditions or using different assumptions.

Software Development Costs. In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 86, Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased or Otherwise Marketed, costs incurred in the research and development of new software products and significant enhancements to existing software products are expensed as incurred until technological feasibility of the product has been established. After technological feasibility has been established, direct production costs, including programming and testing, are capitalized until general release of the product.

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straight-line method over the remaining estimated economic lives of the products. It is possible that estimated total product revenues, the estimated economic life of the product, or both, will be reduced in the future. As a result, the carrying amount of capitalized software costs may be reduced in the future, which could cause our operating results in future periods to be adversely affected.

Impairment of Goodwill. The value of our goodwill could be impacted by future adverse changes such as declines in our operating results or failure to meet the performance projections included in our forecasts of future operating results. We evaluate these assets on an annual basis or more frequently if indicators of impairment exist. In the process of our annual impairment review, we primarily use a discounted cash flow method to determine the fair value of our assets. Significant management judgment is required in the forecasts of future operating results that are used in the discounted cash flow method of valuation. The estimates we have used are consistent with the plans and estimates that we use to manage our business. It is possible, however, that the plans and estimates used may be incorrect. If our actual results, or the plans and estimates used in future impairment analyses, are lower than the original estimates used to assess the recoverability of these assets, we could incur impairment charges.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of our customers to make required payments. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, additional allowances may be required, which would result in an additional general and administrative expense in the period such determination is made. At the end of each reporting period, we perform a detailed review of outstanding balances by customer and invoice. We utilize statistical and account specific analysis to determine the adequacy of our reserve, as well as comparing balances to historical losses. If our assumptions or analysis are incorrect, our operating results for future periods may be adversely affected.

Deferred Income Taxes. Deferred income taxes reflect the net effect of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. At December 31, 2004, we had net deferred tax assets of $2.9 million. Due to the uncertainty of realizing a portion of these net deferred tax assets, we have maintained a valuation allowance of $2.6 million for net deferred tax assets. Such uncertainty primarily relates to the potential for future taxable income as well as loss carryforwards and tax credits expiring in 2018 and 2012, respectively. In addition, pursuant to Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code, annual use of our net operating loss carryforwards may be limited in the event of a cumulative change in ownership of more than 50% within a three-year period. No valuation allowance has been recorded to offset the remaining $275,000 of net deferred tax assets as we have determined that it is more likely than not that these assets will be realized within the next twelve months. We will continue to assess the likelihood of realization of such assets; however, if future events occur which do not make the realization of such assets more likely than not, we will record a valuation allowance against all or a portion of the remaining net deferred tax assets. Examples of future events that might occur which would make the realization of such assets not likely is a lack of taxable income resulting from poor operating results during 2005. As a result of our assessment at December 31, 2004, our valuation allowance remained at $275,000.

Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2002, 2003 and 2004

The following table shows the percentage of revenues, cost of revenues, operating expenses and other items to total revenues in our consolidated statements of operations for the periods indicated:

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Revenues

Our revenues are divided into three categories based upon the sources from which they are derived: initial license fees, annual renewal license and support fees, and services and other revenues. The following discussion is separated into these categories. We sell our products principally through our direct sales force domestically and through distributors and VARs internationally.

The following table summarizes revenues (in thousands) and the percentage change over the previous year for the periods indicated:

Initial license fees. Initial license fees consist primarily of upfront license fees for the first year of use of our products.

The components of initial license fees (in thousands) of our product families consist of the following:

The increase in initial license fees in 2004 is primarily due to higher sales in the United States and improved product sales of xPression. Throughout 2003 and 2004, we addressed the difficulties we had faced with our initial launch of xPression in the fourth quarter of 2002. With the release of xPression 2.0, we have a more stable product and better features. With this release and better customer references, we were able to increase xPression license fees by over $1.2 million.

The decrease in initial license fees in 2003 was due to the impact of transitioning our marketing and sales effort from one based exclusively on our existing Autogragh suite to one focused largely around xPression. However, sales of our enterprise-wide xPression product line often involve more participants in the corporate decision-making process than sales of our Autograph suite. We experienced quality issues and installation problems on the introduction of our xPression product line. As a result of these factors, we had difficulties in generating customer references, which are typically required in the industries into which we sell. In this regard, sales of xPression had been less successful than planned due to transition difficulties, as well as the weak state of the overall economy and the related effect on corporate buying decisions.

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Annual renewal license and support fees. Annual renewal license and support fees consist of license fees for the initial and continued use and support of our licensed products. The increases in 2004 and 2003 were due to increases in our base of licensed software users and in our list prices.

Services and other. Services and other revenues consist of fees for consulting, application development and training services performed by us as well as miscellaneous other operational revenues. The increase in 2004 was largely due to increases in consulting services resulting from our purchase of Objectiva.

Cost of Revenues

The following table summarizes cost of revenues (in thousands) and the percentage change over the previous year for the periods indicated:

Cost of initial license fees. Cost of initial license fees includes amortization of previously capitalized software development costs, costs of third party software, employment costs for distribution personnel and product packaging. The increase in 2004 was primarily the result of higher sales and an increase in the amortization of software due to the general release of xPression 2.0. The decrease in 2003 was primarily the result of lower sales and a decrease in the amortization of software due to full amortization of Autograph products.

Cost of annual renewal license and support fees. Costs of annual renewal license fees consist principally of the employment-related costs for our technical support staff. The increases in 2004 and 2003 were due to increases in staff to support a growing product set.

Cost of services and other. Costs of services and other consist principally of the employment-related costs of our consulting and training staff. The increase in 2004 was due to an increase in staff to support our higher services revenues and from our purchase of Objectiva. The increase in 2003 was due to unbillable time related to the support of, and personnel training in, the use of xPression.

Operating Expenses

The following table summarizes operating expenses (in thousands) and the percentage change over the previous year for the periods indicated:

Research and development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of the employment-related costs of personnel associated with developing new products, enhancing existing products, testing software products and developing product documentation. We anticipate that we will continue to direct significant resources to the development and enhancement of our products.

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The following table shows the breakout of research and development capitalized software development costs (in thousands) and the percentage change over the previous year for the periods indicated:

Capitalized software development costs mainly include payroll related costs of our engineering resources and consulting fees paid to Objectiva in relation to the development of xPression. We expect the amount of capitalized software development costs to be less in 2005 because we expect a decrease in the time between the establishment of technological feasibility and general releases of our products. The increase in capitalized software development costs in 2004 was due to the amount of time between the establishment of technological feasibility and the general release of xPression 2.0. The increase in capitalized software development costs in 2003 was due to additional resources working on xPression.

Our gross development costs in 2004 declined because the costs to conduct development efforts in China became less expensive once resources changed from outside consultants to internal employees following our Objectiva acquisition. The decrease in gross development costs in 2003 was primarily due to a $243,000 decrease in allocated facility and communication costs, $241,000 decrease in personnel costs and a $111,000 decrease in expenditures for outside consultants.

Selling and marketing. Selling and marketing expenses consist primarily of salaries, commissions, marketing programs and related costs for pre- and post-sales activity. The decrease in 2004 was primarily due to a $265,100 decrease in travel expenses and a $155,400 decrease in trade shows and advertising offset by a $288,300 increase in commissions and a $111,500 increase in outside consultants. The increase in 2003 was primarily due to a $413,000 increase in personnel costs in support of the release of xPression and a $250,000 increase in outside sales contractors.

General and administrative. General and administrative expenses consist of employment-related costs for finance, administration, IT and human resources, allowance for doubtful accounts and general corporate management expenses, including legal and audit fees. Not withstanding the $520,000 provision for a European Value Added Tax assessment we accrued in 2003, 2004 general and administrative expenses increased 16% over 2003. This increase was primarily due to a $454,400 increase in personnel costs due to a reclassification in 2004 of certain personnel from other departments. The increase in 2003 was primarily due to a $520,000 provision for a European Value Added Tax assessment and a $193,000 increase in professional fees offset by a $173,000 decrease in allocated facility and communication costs.

Other Items

Interest and other income, net. Interest and other income, net is composed of interest income from cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, offset by interest expense related to capital leases and notes to Xerox and losses on disposals of fixed assets. Interest and other income, net were $93,900, $52,300 and $17,400 in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. The decreases in 2004 and 2003 were the result of less interest income due to lower cash balances and lower interest rates.

Provision (benefit) for income taxes. The $24,700 provision for income taxes in 2004 was due to foreign taxes. In 2003, we reserved $30,000 of the previously released $305,000 of our recorded valuation allowance on net deferred tax assets. The remaining $48,900 provision for income taxes in 2003 was due to foreign taxes. We will continue to assess the likelihood of realization of our net deferred tax assets. If future events occur that do not make the realization of such assets more likely than not, a valuation allowance will be established against all or a portion of the net deferred tax assets.

Trends and Factors That May Affect Future Operating Results

Our total revenues and operating results can vary, sometimes substantially, from quarter to quarter and are expected to vary significantly in the future. Our revenues and operating results are difficult to forecast. Future results will depend upon many factors, including the demand for our products, the level of product and price competition, the length of our sales cycle, the size and timing of individual license transactions, the delay or deferral of customer implementations, the budget cycles of our customers, our success in expanding our direct sales force and indirect distribution channels, the timing of new product introductions and product enhancements by us and our competitors, the mix of products and services sold, levels of international sales, activities of and acquisitions by competitors, the

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timing of new hires, changes in foreign currency exchange rates, our ability to develop and market new products, controlling costs and general domestic and international economic conditions. In addition, our sales generally reflect a relatively high amount of revenue per order, and, therefore, the loss or delay of individual orders could have a significant impact on our revenues and quarterly operating results. In addition, a significant amount of our revenues occur predominantly in the third month of each fiscal quarter and tend to be concentrated in the latter half of that third month.

Our software products generally are shipped as orders are received. As a result, initial license fees in any quarter are substantially dependent on orders booked and shipped in that quarter. The timing of receipt of initial license fees is difficult to predict because of the length of our sales cycle. For Autograph products, our sales cycle is typically three to nine months from initial contact. For xPression products, our sales cycle is typically six months to over one year from initial contact. Because our operating expenses are based on anticipated revenue trends and because a high percentage of our expenses are relatively fixed, a delay in the recognition of revenue from a limited number of initial license transactions could cause significant variations in operating results from quarter to quarter and could result in losses. To the extent such expenses precede, or are not subsequently followed by, increased revenues, our operating results could be materially adversely affected.

Due to the foregoing factors, revenues and operating results for any quarter are subject to significant variation, and we believe that period-to-period comparisons are not necessarily meaningful and should not be relied upon as indications of future performance.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of cash come mainly from operations and sales and maturities of short-term investments. Our main uses of cash are for payroll. Our main project underway is a maintenance program, xPression 2.1. We intend to release in the 1^st quarter of 2005. We currently do not have any debt from borrowed money. Our short-term investments are invested in U.S. government agency obligations.

We believe that our existing cash balances and anticipated cash flows from operations will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for working capital and capital expenditures at least through the next twelve months. In this regard, a portion of our cash could be used to acquire or invest in complementary businesses or products or to obtain the right to use complementary technologies. We have no material current understandings, commitments or agreements with respect to any acquisition in whole of other businesses, products or technologies.

At December 31, 2004, we had $6.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments. This is an increase of $827,500 from December 31, 2003. This is primarily due to net income of $718,900 and an increase of $1.7 million in deferred revenue offset by payments of $1.9 million for software development costs.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of December 31, 2003 and 2004, we did not have any other relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partners, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. As such, we are not materially exposed to any financing, liquidity, market or credit risk that could arise if we had engaged in such relationships.

Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations

The following information as of December 31, 2004 is shown with respect to known contractual obligations for the periods specified below.

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Recently Issued Accounting Standards

On December 16, 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment, which is a revision of SFAS 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. SFAS 123(R) supersedes APB Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, and amends SFAS No. 95, Statement of Cash Flows. Generally, the approach in SFAS 123(R) is similar to the approach described in SFAS 123. However, SFAS 123(R) requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the income statement based on their fair values. Pro forma disclosure is no longer an alternative.

We will adopt the provisions of SFAS 123(R) using a modified prospective application. Under modified prospective application, SFAS 123(R), which provides certain changes to the method for valuing stock-based compensation among other changes, will apply to new awards and to awards that are outstanding on the effective date and are subsequently modified or cancelled. Compensation expense for outstanding awards for which the requisite service had not been rendered as of the effective date will be recognized over the remaining service period using the compensation cost calculated for pro forma disclosure purposes under SFAS 123. We are in the process of determining how the new method of valuing stock-based compensation as prescribed in SFAS 123(R) will be applied to valuing stock-based awards granted after the effective date and the impact the recognition of compensation expense related to such awards will have on its financial statements.

SFAS 123(R) must be adopted no later than July 1, 2005. Early adoption will be permitted in periods in which financial statements have not yet been issued. We expect to adopt SFAS 123(R) on July 1, 2005.

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

Our earnings and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. To a certain extent, foreign currency exchange rate movements also affect our competitive position, as exchange rate changes may affect business practices and/or pricing strategies on non-U.S. based competitors. Our primary foreign currency risk exposure is related to U.S. Dollar to Euro conversions. Our subsidiary in China conducts business primarily in the Chinese Yuan. Currently, the Chinese Yuan is tied to the U.S. Dollar at a rate of 8.28 to 1. Considering the anticipated cash flows from firm sales commitments and anticipated sales for the next quarter, a hypothetical 10% weakening of the U.S. Dollar relative to the Euro would not materially adversely affect expected first quarter 2005 earnings or cash flows. This analysis is dependent on actual export sales during the next quarter occurring within 90% of budgeted forecasts. The effect of the hypothetical change in exchange rates ignores the affect this movement may have on other variables including competitive risk. If it were possible to quantify this competitive impact, the results could well be different than the sensitivity effects described above. Each month, we review our position for expected currency exchange rate movements.

Interest Rate Risk

We are exposed to changes in interest rates primarily from our short-term available-for-sale investments. Under our current policies, we do not use interest rate derivative instruments to manage exposure to interest rate changes. A hypothetical 100 basis point adverse move in interest rates along the entire interest rate yield curve would not materially affect the fair value of our interest sensitive financial instruments at December 31, 2004. Declines in interest rates over time will, however, reduce our interest income.

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

The financial statements and supplementary data required by this item are set forth at the end of this annual report on Form 10-K beginning on page F-1 and are incorporated into this item by reference.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

None.

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-K, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. That evaluation was performed under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, who also serves as our Chief Financial Officer. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective in alerting him of information relating to Document Sciences that is required to be included in our periodic SEC filings.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have made no significant change in our internal control over financial reporting during the most recent fiscal quarter covered by this report on Form 10-K that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

Note applicable.

PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

The information required by this item concerning our directors and certain information regarding our executive officers is incorporated by reference to the information set forth in the sections entitled “Election of Directors – Nominees,” “Compensation of Executive Officers”, “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” and “Board Meetings and Committees—Audit Committee” in our Proxy Statement for the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Executive Officers of Document Sciences

The executive officers of Document Sciences and their ages, as of March 24, 2005, are as follows:

John L. McGannon has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2001 and Chief Financial Officer since December 1999. He has also served as Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Controller since joining Document Sciences in September 1998. From June 1997 through August 1998, Mr. McGannon served as the Manager of Financial Analysis and Planning for Simulation Sciences, Inc., a California-

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based software developer for the oil and chemical engineering industries. Mr. McGannon worked for Chevron Corporation from 1988 to 1997 in a variety of financial management positions. Mr. McGannon holds a BA degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Daniel J. Fregeau has served as our Executive Vice President since January 2001. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. From 1997 to 1998, he served as Vice President, Business Development. From 1994 to 1997, he served as Vice President, Marketing and from 1992 to 1994, he served as Vice President, Sales. Before joining Document Sciences, Mr. Fregeau was Marketing Manager for the Networking Division of Sears Business Centers, San Diego, from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Fregeau was a founder and principal of MicroAge in San Diego from 1988 to 1990. From 1982 to 1988, Mr. Fregeau held several positions with Xerox Corporation’s Electronic Publishing Business Unit including Manager of Systems Engineering and Integration, Technical Program Manager and Project Manager. While at Xerox, Mr. Fregeau designed and directed the development of several publishing products and was a key contributor to the launch of the XICS (now CompuSet) product in the U.S. and Canada.

Nasser S. Barghouti, PhD. has served as our Chief Technology Officer since July 2004. Prior to joining Document Sciences, Mr. Barghouti co-founded Objectiva Software Solutions in August 2001 and served as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding Objectiva, he served as the Global Director of Technology at ONEWORLD Software Solutions from 2000 to 2001, where he was responsible for setting the technology direction of the company, and for providing technical oversight on software projects. Mr. Barghouti was also Associate Director of Information Technology at Bear Stearns & Co. in New York City, one of the world’s leading investment banks and brokerage clearing houses. He served as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Research Labs in Florham Park, NJ and Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. Mr. Barghouti received his BS, MS and PhD all in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has published dozens of papers in referenced journals and international conferences, and has given numerous presentations at leading research labs and scientific forums.

Peter M. Riccio has served as our Senior Vice President of Sales since June 2004. Prior to joining Document Sciences, Mr. Riccio served as Vice President of Sales at Planitax, Inc. in 2003 and Saba Software from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Riccio also held executive-level sales positions at PeopleSoft, Inc. and Ardent Software, Inc. Mr. Riccio’s experience also includes sales positions at Hewlett-Packard and Informix Software.

J. Douglas Winter has served as our General Manager of Technical Operations since July 2004. Prior to joining Document Sciences, Mr. Winter co-founded Objectiva Software Solutions in August 2001 and served as CEO. Previously, he served as General Manager of ONEWORLD Software Solution’s California client service centers from 1999 to 2001, establishing their west coast operations and also served as part of their global operations committee, responsible for formulating and executing strategic operations. Mr. Winter also served as Program Manager for Qualcomm’s 3500 series of CDMA base stations and later was responsible for the product certification and testing of the QUALCOMM Thin Phone (QCP 860/1960). Mr. Winter holds a MSEE and a MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSEE from Virginia Technological University. Following his undergraduate work, he worked for three years for Westinghouse where he was an instructor for the US Navy’s nuclear training program.

Tao Ye has served as our General Manager of Asian Operations since July 2004. Prior to joining Document Sciences, Mr. Ye co-founded Objectiva Software Solutions in August 2001 and was Chief Operating Officer and President of Objectiva Software Solutions in China. Previously, he served as General Manager of the ONEWORLD Software’s Greater China Division from 1999 to 2001. Prior to ONEWORLD, Mr. Ye was Program Manager for Intel Materials eBusiness effort and also worked for Eastman Kodak Company where he designed and implemented Kodak’s supply chain for Greater China Region. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Business, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the MIT School of Engineering, a M.S. in Materials Science from the University of California Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Mathematical Mechanics from Peking (Beijing) University.

Executive officers are appointed by the Board of Directors and serve at the discretion of the Board. There are no family relationships among any directors or executive officers of Document Sciences.

Code of Ethics

We have a code of ethics that applies to all our employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller and persons performing similar functions, as well as our

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directors. Our code of ethics is posted on our website at www.docscience.com and is included under Exhibit 14.1 to this annual report. If you would like a complementary copy of our code of ethics, please write to Document Sciences Corp, 6339 Paseo del Lago, Carlsbad, CA 92009, Attn: Corporate Secretary. We will disclose any waivers of, or amendments to, the code of ethics that applies to any of our senior and executive officers, controller and persons performing similar functions on our website.

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The information required by this item regarding executive compensation is incorporated by reference to the information set forth in the sections entitled “Executive Officer and Compensation” and “Compensation of Directors” in our Proxy Statement for the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.

The information required by this item regarding our security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management is incorporated by reference to the information set forth in the section entitled “Beneficial Security Ownership of Management and Certain Beneficial Owners” in our Proxy Statement for the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Securities Available for Issuance under the Company’s Equity Compensation Plans

The following table provides information with respect to our equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2003, which plans were as follows: the 1995 Stock Incentive Plan, the 2004 Stock Incentive Plan and the 1997 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended.

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

The information required by this item regarding certain relationships and related transactions is incorporated by reference to the information set forth in the section entitled “Certain Transactions” in our Proxy Statement for the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES

The information required by this item regarding principal accounting fees and services is incorporated by reference to the information set forth in the section entitled “Ratification of Appointment of Independent Auditors” in our Proxy Statement for the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

Schedules other than those listed above have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable or the information is otherwise included.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Dated: March 24, 2005

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints John L. McGannon his attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this report, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitute, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant on March 24, 2005 in the capacities indicated:

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DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

FOR YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2004

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Document Sciences Corporation

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Document Sciences Corporation (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2003 and 2004, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2004. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in Item 15(a). These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Document Sciences Corporation at December 31, 2003 and 2004, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2004, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

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