KMWorld Hails ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK as Trend-Setting Product; World's Leading OCR and PDF Developer Kit Selected by Editors and Panelists From Among Thousands of Products

Business Wire, August 23, 2005

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that ScanSoft(R) OmniPage(R) Capture SDK (software developer kit) 12 has been selected as a Trend-Setting Product in KMWorld. The winners, announced in the September 2005 issue of KMWorld, represent the best of thousands of leading products from hundreds of vendors.

OmniPage Capture SDK was selected by KMWorld editors and panelists based on criteria such as usability, flexibility, adoption rate, and total cost of ownership. The OmniPage Capture SDK has long been the standard for commercial developers to add sophisticated imaging, optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF capabilities to software applications, significantly speeding time-to-market while lowering development costs. Based on the imaging technology within ScanSoft(R) OmniPage(R) Pro, the leading application for desktop OCR and PDF conversion, the OmniPage Capture SDK gives developers access to highly accurate recognition engines, including OCR (machine print), ICR (handprint), OMR (checkmark) and barcode. It also provides high-level recognition-voting interfaces that deliver the most accurate results possible.

"This year's Trend-Setting products represent the best of the best from an overwhelming pool of products and solutions," said Hugh McKellar Editor in chief, KMWorld. "We congratulate ScanSoft and all the companies receiving this distinction for their continued commitment to excellence."

Designed for optimal 32-bit application development, the ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK is everything a developer needs to quickly add sophisticated imaging, recognition and PDF capabilities to commercial and in-house software applications. It is the number-one OCR toolkit in the world, supporting Latin, Cyrillic and Asian recognition applications, and is used in nearly all of the leading commercial applications that support imaging and OCR, including Autodesk Raster Design, Canon imageWARE, CardScan (formerly Corex Technologies), FileNET Panagon Capture, Kofax Ascent Capture, Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft SharePoint.

"We are proud that OmniPage Capture SDK has been recognized as a Trend-Setting product by the editors of KMWorld," said Robert Weideman, senior vice president, ScanSoft Productivity Applications Division. "The expanding use of ScanSoft developer tools within new developer communities is being driven in large part by the fact that imaging, scanning and PDF have become mainstream technologies. This acknowledgement by KMWorld provides further validation that ScanSoft is truly ahead of the curve in delivering what the market needs."

The complete list of Trend-Setting Products is available on the KMWorld Web site at: http://www.kmworld.com.

About KMWorld

The leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market, KMWorld (with a focus on Content, Document and Knowledge Management) informs more than 51,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories - that together offer solutions for improving business performance. For more information, please visit www.kmworld.com or call 207-236-8524.

About ScanSoft, Inc.

ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT) is a global leader of speech and imaging solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes - saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service. For more information regarding ScanSoft products and technologies, please visit www.ScanSoft.com.

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The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with market trends, competitive factors, and other risks identified in ScanSoft's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof.