EXHIBIT 3.(i)


                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                            ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                           SAZTEC INTERNATIONAL, INC.



         Pursuant to Section 905 the General Corporation Law of the State of
California, Gary N. Abernathy and Kent L. Meyer, President and Secretary of
Saztec International, Inc., a California corporation, hereby certify as follows:

         1. That Gary N. Abernathy is the President and Kent L. Meyer is the
Secretary of Saztec International, Inc., a California corporation (the
"Corporation").

         2. That on April 30, 1997, pursuant to Section 902 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of California, the Board of Directors of the
Corporation duly adopted the following resolution, declared its advisability and
directed its submission to the stockholders for consideration and approval:

         WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Corporation have decided that it
         is in the best interests of the Corporation to effect a reverse stock
         split of the common stock of the Corporation and, in conjunction
         therewith, an increase in the authorized number of shares of common
         stock of the Corporation;

         NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Articles of Incorporation of
         the corporation shall be amended by deleting the present Article FOURTH
         thereof in its entirety, and inserting in its place a new Article
         FOURTH as follows:

         "FOURTH: (a) Upon the effectiveness of this amendment each of the
         issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation shall
         be, and hereby is, automatically reclassified as and converted into
         shares of common stock of the Corporation on the basis of one (1) share
         of newly issued common stock for each four (4) shares of common stock
         held by the Corporation's shareholders prior to the filing of this
         amendment. Any fractional shares created by this 1-for-4 reverse stock
         split shall be canceled and paid in cash to the shareholder upon the
         issuance of the shareholder's stock certificate, calculated in
         accordance with the closing trading price for the Corporation's common
         stock on the date this amendment is filed.

                 (b) The Corporation shall have authority to issue two classes
         of stock, 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock ("Preferred Stock"), and
         10,000,000 shares of common stock ("Common Stock").

                 (c) The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one
         or more series. The Board of Directors is authorized to fix the number
         of shares of any series of Preferred Stock and to determine the
         designation of any such series. The Board of Directors is also
         authorized to determine or alter the rights, preferences, privileges
         and restrictions granted to or imposed upon any wholly-unissued series
         of Preferred Stock and, within the limits and restrictions stated in
         any resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors originally
         fixing the number of shares constituting any series, to increase or
         decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then
         outstanding) the number of shares of any such series subsequent to the
         issue of shares of that series."

         FURTHER RESOLVED, that the proposed amendment to Article FOURTH of the
         Corporation's Articles of Incorporation be submitted to a vote or
         consent of the shareholders of the Corporation in accordance with
         Sections 601 and 603 of the California General Corporation Law;






         FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors recommends to the
         shareholders that they vote or consent in favor of the proposed
         amendment;

         FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Corporation are hereby
         authorized and directed to prepare a Consent Solicitation Statement for
         the solicitation of consents in favor of the proposed amendment to
         Article FOURTH of the Corporation's Articles of Incorporation in
         accordance with Sections 601 and 603 of the California General
         Corporation Law, to file the Consent Solicitation Statement and any
         other solicitation materials with the Securities and Exchange
         Commission, and to take such other actions and to prepare and file such
         other consents, notices, filings and certificates as may be necessary
         or desirable in the judgment of any officer of the Corporation to
         effectuate the consent solicitation and to obtain approval of the
         shareholders of the proposed amendment.

         3. The foregoing amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the
Corporation has been approved by the required vote of the outstanding shares of
the Corporation, pursuant to the shareholder consent solicitation described in
the foregoing resolutions, in accordance with Section 903 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of California.

         We further declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State
of California that the matters set forth in this Certificate are true and
correct.

         This Certificate of Amendment was executed this 24 day of October,
1997.


                                     /s/ GARY N. ABERNATHY
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                                    Gary N. Abernathy, President




 ATTEST:

/s/ KENT L. MEYER
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 Kent L. Meyer, Secretary