ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK Gains Momentum as Industry's Leading OCR and PDF Toolkit

Business Wire, May 17, 2005

PHILADELPHIA -- -

Nearly 100% of Companies Delivering Imaging Capabilities Select ScanSoft, Including ACOM Solutions, CardScan, Carreker, Metafile, and Vignette

ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that the ScanSoft(R) OmniPage(R) Capture SDK (software developer kit) 12 continues to gain momentum as the industry's leading imaging toolkit, and that it has signed licensing agreements with several market leaders, including ACOM Solutions, CardScan, Carreker, Metafile, and Vignette.

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. Other commercial vendors needing to support imaging features that have selected OmniPage Capture SDK include Accusoft, ActivePDF, Autodesk, Canon, Captiva, DataCap, Freedom Scientific, Hyland Software, IMR, Kofax, Omtool, Microsoft, Westbrook Technologies, Symantec and Xerox. In addition, with scanning, imaging and PDF becoming a mainstream technology, corporate and integrator organizations worldwide have found that they can lower costs and gain better results by developing their own applications through the use of ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK. Internal development customers include Avis, Bank of America, Citibank, CNA Canada, E & J Winery, Household Finance Corporation, Lexus Nexis, Lockheed Martin, MasterCard, Raytheon, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and WalMart.

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. To enable rapid application development, the toolkit includes pre-made user interfaces for controlling scanning devices, and tools that enable advanced image enhancement, de-skew and document processing capabilities. A wide array of imaging and digital formats are supported by the toolkit, including TIF, various types of PDF, Microsoft Word, XML, HTML and Open eBook.

ScanSoft has several licensing agreements for the OmniPage Capture SDK with market-leading companies:

--  ACOM Solutions - ACOM Solutions, which develops, markets and
        implements advanced modular software systems for edocument
        management, e-payment management, B2B ecommerce management and
        e-purchasing management, selected the OmniPage Capture SDK to
        add sophisticated OCR to its document management solutions.

        "As our product offering evolved from a document output
        solution to an integrated Web-based document management
        strategy, we needed to add a powerful and flexible OCR
        capability," said James R Scott, vice president, general
        manager, ACOM Solutions. "We felt that the combination of
        ScanSoft's OmniPage Capture SDK rich feature set, along with
        its wide market acceptance, would strengthen our competitive
        position."

    --  Carreker - Carreker Corporation, a leading provider of
        technology and consulting solutions for the financial services
        industry, selected the OmniPage Capture SDK for its Payee Name
        Verification (PNV) solution, which adds additional security to
        financial institutions by identifying possible payee name
        alterations and flagging suspect items for further
        investigation, significantly reducing the risk of fraudulent
        checks and enhancing positive pay systems for institutions
        that use them.

        "In our continuing quest to provide best of class solutions,
        ScanSoft's complementary, advanced imaging capabilities allow
        us to offer even more fraud protection for our positive pay
        clients," said Thomas G. Gordon, senior vice president, Risk
        Solutions Group, Carreker. "Our Payee Name Verification
        solution provides our customers with a simple, cost-effective
        solution that is both affordable and reliable. ScanSoft's
        technology is extremely accurate, and affords our clients a
        high level of confidence that their transactions are
        protected."

A[micro]   --  CardScan - CardScan, Inc., (formerly Corex Technologies,
        Inc.), the market leader in business card scanning solutions,
        selected OmniPage Capture SDK for its CardScan business
        scanner products, which scan and upload data from a business
        card into the appropriate fields of a database without typing.
        ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK was chosen by Corex to replace a
        previous OCR solution which along with Corex's proprietary
        interpretive scanning technology resulted in superior speed,
        significant improvements in the use of system memory and an
        increase in accuracy of 21 percent.

        "CardScan customers know that they can always expect the
        highest levels of accuracy from our products," said Peter J.
        Weyman, president of CardScan. "When we looked to improve the
        OCR engine within CardScan, ScanSoft was the first vendor that
        we approached. Their advanced imaging capabilities are the
        perfect complement to our own proprietary technology - the
        combination of the two award-winning solutions allows our
        customers to work as efficiently as possible, achieving the
        highest levels of accuracy and productivity."

    --  Metafile - Metafile Information Systems, Inc., a privately
        held software development and systems integration company,
        selected the OmniPage Capture SDK to add sophisticated OCR to
        its MetaViewer Enterprise ECM solution.

        "The seamless integration, speed and accuracy of ScanSoft's
        OCR, and its ease of implementation, greatly enhance the
        capture capabilities of our ECM solution," said Jim Mandt,
        vice president, Support Services, Metafile Information
        Systems, Inc. "Our customers find that it is invaluable for
        automating the traditionally manual process of indexing
        scanned documents."

    --  Vignette Corp. - Vignette, a leading provider of Enterprise
        Content Management solutions, selected the OmniPage Capture
        SDK to add highly accurate OCR and PDF capabilities to support
        conversion of print and image data into searchable archives
        for Vignette(R) IDM and Vignette(R) Records & Documents. After
        evaluating alternatives, Vignette chose to extend its
        relationship with ScanSoft.

        "As a global leader in providing Enterprise Content Management
        and Portal solutions, Vignette leverages third party
        components to provide deep functionality in specialized areas
        such as OCR," said John MacLean, senior director of product
        management at Vignette. "ScanSoft is a clear leader in OCR
        technology, and allows Vignette to offer its customers good
        recognition rates, performance, reliability, and multiple
        language support."