FBI Selects ScanSoft OmniPage Professional from Nuance as OCR Standard for Financial Crimes Section; World's Leading OCR Solution Helps FBI Crack Down on Illegal Financial Activities

Business Wire, April 4, 2006

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has selected ScanSoft(R) OmniPage(R) Professional 15 from Nuance as the OCR standard for its Financial Crimes Section (FCS). More than 250 professionals within the FBI nationwide are using OmniPage Professional 15 to quickly capture and assess financial records in an effort to dismantle illegal financial activities such as money laundering and insurance fraud. OmniPage Professional 15 - the world's best-selling OCR solution - is the most accurate and efficient way to convert, edit, archive and share paper and PDF documents.

The mission of the FBI's Financial Crimes Section is to identify, target, disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations and individuals engaged in fraud schemes that target financial institutions, such as insider fraud, identity theft, check kiting, loan fraud and mortgage fraud. FBI employees involved in financial crimes investigations are using OmniPage Professional to quickly and accurately scan paper financial records of suspected criminals and automatically convert that information to Microsoft Excel.

"We are proud that the FBI has selected OmniPage for its Financial Crimes Section," said John Shagoury, president, Productivity Applications Division, Nuance. "This agreement is further proof of the strong demand for OCR solutions to address critical projects, and further testament that OmniPage leads the way as the most accurate, efficient OCR solution available today to address that demand."

ScanSoft OmniPage Professional from Nuance - consistently judged the most accurate by independent experts - sets the standard for OCR, PDF and document conversion applications and delivers features and functionality not matched by any other desktop OCR product. OmniPage Professional expands the value of OCR into universal document conversion, and enables users to get more from scanning and archiving to solve difficult digital document conversion problems and to archive any digital format as PDF's.

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