Nuance Ships ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK 15, World's Leading Scanning, OCR and PDF Developer Toolkit

Business Wire, August 22, 2006

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- New Release Extends Accuracy and Performance Leadership, Expands Support for PDF with PDF/A and Highly Compressed PDF-MRC, Embraces Microsoft .NET and More

Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the availability of the ScanSoft(R) OmniPage(R) Capture SDK 15. The developer toolkit is the world's leading solution for rapidly adding scanning, optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF capabilities to both commercial and in-house applications, delivering an unrivaled combination of accuracy and robust features to a wide range of imaging applications. The toolkit supports OCR in over 120 languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and includes image processing, barcode, handprint and forms processing technologies.

OmniPage Capture SDK 15 delivers accuracy levels that can reach over 99 percent for OCR, an increase of up to 36 percent over the previous version and a performance that is up to 50 percent better than alternatives. Customers also benefit from the built-in support for dual-core, hyper-threading and multi-CPU systems, which deliver speed improvements of up to 32 percent. Application development has been greatly simplified through the delivery of high-level function calls and support for C, C++, COM, VB.NET and C# programming environments, as well as pre-made end user interfaces that now include the OmniPage Workflow Assistant. The new release also includes features not available from any other imaging SDK, including Logical Forms Recognition(TM) and Form Template Editor, which simplify developing forms processing applications; RealSpeak(TM) Text-to-Speech for converting documents into audio files; and robust support for PDF, including new PDF/A and highly compressed PDF-MRC formats.

The OmniPage Capture SDK is used as the scanning and document conversion technology by nearly all of the leading commercial vendors implementing scanning, OCR or PDF capabilities into their applications, including Accusoft, Adlib eDoc Solutions, AnyDoc Systems, Autodesk, Bowe Bell & Howell, Captaris, Cardiff Software, Canon, Electronic for Imaging, EMC Captiva, Freedom Scientific, Hyland Software, Kofax, Omtool, Microsoft, Westbrook Technologies and Xerox. It is also the technology used within the world's largest Web book scanning and search projects, and the only OCR indexing technology integrated with desktop search products, including Google Desktop Search. Corporate and integrator organizations worldwide have also discovered that they use the toolkit to lower costs through automated document scanning and archive. Corporate customers include Avis, Bank of America, Citibank, CNA Canada, E & J Winery, Household Finance Corporation, Lexus Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and WalMart.

Used in a wide range of applications, the OmniPage Capture SDK is consistently selected for its accuracy, performance and robust development capabilities:

--Data Capture Solutions - Data Capture Solutions Ltd. provides enterprise information management software solutions and associated services to more than 400 of the largest businesses in the world. DCS is using Nuance's award-winning OCR functionality in the OmniPage Capture SDK for document capture for its FileStore document management solution.

--Esker - Esker is a recognized leader in helping organizations streamline manual, paper-intensive processes and reduce the use of paper by automating the flow of documents into, within and outside the organization. Esker uses the OmniPage Capture SDK to extract data from inbound fax communications for routing and indexing purposes within its document delivery automation software

--Formic - Formic is one of the top 5 European information capture software vendors and its solutions reduce costs by automating an organization's core business processes and feeding enterprise applications with information from multiple communication channels. Leveraging the OmniPage Capture SDK from Nuance, Formic's systems capture, validate and deliver data from paper documents or web enabled e-forms via mobile devices, internet PC's, remote faxes, scanners and multi-function devices

--Formscape - More than 8,000 customers globally rely on FormScape solutions - Covus and FormScape V3 - to substantially cut costs, improve information visibility, and ensure better control of business documents. Formscape leverages the OCR within the OmniPage Capture SDK for its electronic forms management, imaging, storage and output for SAP, JDE, Oracle, PeopleSoft, MBS and others.

--Fuji Xerox - Fuji Xerox markets the broadest range of printers, digital production publishers, multifunction devices, copiers, facsimile products and scanners in the industry. Fuji Xerox leverages the OmniPage Capture SDK in its CentreWare Flow Services, a powerful software solution that automatically processes an organization's document flow, streamlines the flow of work, and empowers people to greater productivity and results.