World’s Most Popular Scanning and Document Management Solution for the PC Now Available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Languages; Boasts Remarkable Speed and Accuracy Gains, One-Button Scanning, and PDF-MRC Compression

AIIMexpo 2007, BOSTON – April 18, 2006 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the immediate availability of ScanSoft® PaperPort® 11 Asian Edition. PaperPort 11, the world’s most popular scanning and document management application for Microsoft Windows, is now available through Nuance’s OEM and channel partners in Asia in simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. PaperPort 11 Asian Edition boasts more than 60 new features and enhancements as well as dramatic speed and accuracy improvements to make it easier than ever to win the war against paper and organize all of the documents and files on your PC.

PaperPort is used by millions of people every day to scan, search and organize documents and photographs on a personal PC or across a network. Despite the worldwide growth of scan-enabled devices, many PC users and business professionals have traditionally held the opinion that scanning and document management software is complex and expensive. With the availability of PaperPort 11 in even more languages, Nuance proves that people worldwide can benefit from scanning and document management through a product that is easy to use.

“PaperPort 11 Asian Edition joins with our PaperPort solutions for North America and EMEA to provide our OEM customers with a single source for a powerful desktop scanning client,” said Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president, Productivity Applications, Nuance. “PaperPort 11 Asian Edition also comes at a time where corporate and home office interest in scanning is accelerating throughout the region, a trend that we will fully exploit.”

PaperPort is the de-facto standard desktop scanning client for a wide range of scanning OEM’s, with PaperPort being the core OEM client application of Xerox Scan-to-PC Desktop, EFI Desktop and Desktop Professional and Konica Minolta Unity Desktop and Kyocera. PaperPort is also the OEM scanning desktop for devices from Avision, Brother, Dell, Epson, HP, Kodak, Kyocera, Lexmark, OkiData, Panasonic, Planon, Sagem, Visioneer and more. Key Features of PaperPort 11 Asian Edition

• Fastest PaperPort Ever – The dramatic speed improvements in PaperPort 11 will amaze users and can provide every organization with a powerful, new way to organize all of their local and network files. Navigation speed has been increased by over 200 percent for moving between folders, which is especially valuable for folders containing hundreds or thousands of files. Program start-up time as well as the speed and technique of generating thumbnail representations of existing files are also greatly improved.



• Easy, One-Button Scanning – Compatible with practically every scanner, All-in-One, multifunction printer and digital copier, PaperPort 11 makes it easy for everyone to get professional scanning results from single page documents to newsprint and large stacks of duplex pages. Its One-Button Scanning™ encapsulates what requires multiple manual steps in other products into “one button” in PaperPort. PaperPort 11 also makes it easier to scan large multi-page document sets, providing a new Capture Assistant to view, reorder, copy and delete pages before storing them in PaperPort or other content management system.



• Amazing Accuracy – PaperPort 11 delivers a 40 percent increase in OCR accuracy, which is used to automatically index documents for archive and search, and to convert paper into documents and text that you can edit. PaperPort can index and extract text from documents in 56 languages.



• Unrivaled PDF Value – To match the robust PDF capabilities in PaperPort 11 customers would need to purchase multiple products – and still fall short in finding the value of PDF in PaperPort. The new release includes new file compression technology, called PDF-MRC, that creates industry-standard PDF files that are up to eight times smaller than what alternative products offer, making it easier than ever to share paper documents over email and the Web. PaperPort 11 enables users to create PDF from any PC application, and supports the ability to view, print, annotate, highlight and secure PDF files. Users can also assemble scanned images and documents in various formats into a new PDF stack with drag-and-drop ease.



• Clear and Clean Scans – PaperPort includes point-and-click image correction tools called Scanner Enhancement Technology, or SET™, tools which automatically correct bad scans and enhance digital photographs. The new release adds SET operations to One-Button Scanning, and expands SET tools with color drop out as well as foreground and background correction. This allows users to get high-quality results even for text on top of color backgrounds and overcoming bleed-through from ultra-thin paper. The new SET capabilities are ideal for scanning invoices, receipts, magazine articles and newsprint, as well as for enhancing and editing photographs.

To see more of the new and exciting features in PaperPort 11, please visit www.nuance.com/paperport.

Nuance’s ScanSoft Imaging Solutions are in Booth # 2250 at AIIMexpo 2007

ScanSoft Imaging Solutions

Through unrivaled features, accuracy and performance, ScanSoft Imaging Solutions from Nuance eliminate barriers to productivity by enabling people and organizations to automate a range of document processes – increasing productivity, saving time and reducing costs. With products for enterprises, small-to-medium-sized businesses and home offices, ScanSoft Imaging Solutions are used to put the power of PDF on every business desktop; convert paper and PDF into documents that can be easily edited; and simplify scanning and document management using multifunction scanners and networked digital copiers. To experience new levels of productivity, please visit www.nuance.com/ScanSoft.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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