Nuance Introduces PDF Converter Pro Legal Edition; Offers Best-in-Class PDF Redaction and Document Security

Business Wire, April 17, 2007

New Desktop Solution Brings "Better PDF for Legal" to Users in Legal, Intelligence, Homeland Defense, Corporate Environments

BOSTON -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced PDF Converter Pro Legal, a new version of the best-selling alternative to Adobe Acrobat that significantly strengthens content security when sharing PDF documents. The product enables users to redact sensitive information from PDF documents, a capability important in legal, intelligence, homeland defense, and corporate environments. PDF Converter Pro Legal delivers all of the features that users require - PDF creation, conversion, editing and form filling, and now PDF redaction capabilities - for one-third the cost of Adobe Acrobat Professional.

Redaction, or the selective and permanent removal of information from a document, has been a mainstay in legal, intelligence, defense and security organizations for decades, and more recently within corporate environments, where finance, human resources and other departments regularly deal with sensitive information. While documents have traditionally been redacted as paper, with sections of text blotted out with the use of a black marker, recently organizations have looked to PDF to more easily share their redacted documents. And while PDF makes it easy to share same-as-paper documents online, the format can also make it easy to mistakenly leave hidden text in a PDF document, even if it is not readable on the screen.

"PDF has been established as a standard format for sharing documents, but it can create a false sense of security if the appropriate redaction and security measures are not taken, resulting in the inadvertent release of sensitive information," said Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president, Productivity Applications, Nuance. "With the new PDF Converter Pro Legal, we put trusted PDF redaction at everyone's fingertips, delivering secure technology that has been proven to work within leading legal, military and intelligence organizations where security is simply a must."

Nuance has teamed with Appligent, the established leader in PDF redaction, to add redaction, bates stamping and security capabilities to PDF Converter Pro Legal , delivering enhanced document security and peace of mind to anyone concerned with the security of sensitive documents.

Users can easily prepare a document for redaction using familiar tools, share the document with others for confirmation, and then instantly redact selected portions. The product creates a duplicate copy of the original PDF, but with all traces of redacted text safely and securely removed from the new PDF copy.

PDF Converter Pro Legal Features

* Search and Redact - Users can apply redaction across an entire document quickly and easily using keywords or phrases

* Batch Redaction - Removes targeted words or phrases using an external list, which is especially valuable when redacting a set of PDF documents, or standardizing redaction across many workers

* Standardized Redaction/Exemption Codes - Used to insert reason codes for redactions made in a document, includes built-in exemption codes for the United States Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act

* Text and Zone Redaction - Removes text as well as pictures, tables, charts and zones within a PDF

* Template Redaction - Redaction using single or multi-page templates

* Bracketed Text Redaction - Many law firms previously marked areas for redaction in Word and WordPerfect files with square brackets. The text between brackets was then turned to white, which is not secure. Redax will automatically redact the content that is between square brackets

* Automatic Document MetaData Removal - Removal of sensitive data not visible on-screen, but within the structure of the document such as Author, Date, Organization, etc.

* Bates Stamping - Used by legal and business to date and sequentially number documents as they are received and processed

* Permanent Stamping - Ability to add arbitrary new text to an existing PDF, which then becomes a permanent part of the PDF document

* Customized Stamps - The appearance and position of stamps are customizable for color, font, style, size, location

* Page Numbering - Enables users to assemble pages from multiple sources and create new page numbering for the newly compiled PDF document

* Invisible Stamping - Allow for the addition of text information that is invisible to the naked eye, but visible to search tools and engines

In just three years Nuance has become the clear alternative to Adobe for desktop PDF applications, selling more than one million seats of its Better PDF for Business[TM] and Better PDF for Legal[TM] solutions to individuals and organizations worldwide. PDF Converter Professional from Nuance has won accolades for the technical quality of its PDF implementation, providing organizations such as Credit Suisse Information Technology, Dell, The Gillette Company, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, The National Institute of Health, Volkswagen, and Wells Fargo with an affordable and 100% industry-standard PDF solution.