BURLINGTON, MA, February 26, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced “Better PDF for Government,”™ an innovative program that gives government agencies the opportunity to save up to 50 percent on the cost of PDF desktop software. The program offers special volume pricing on Nuance PDF Converter Professional, which has quickly become the leading alternative to Adobe® Acrobat® for desktop PDF.

Initially developed in collaboration with Microsoft, Nuance’s PDF Converter Professional was designed from the ground up to provide business professionals with everything they need to become more productive using the PDF standard. Like Adobe® Acrobat®, it provides full PDF creation, editing, form-filling and annotation capabilities. It also goes beyond Acrobat’s capabilities, especially in the area of turning PDF files back into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files – complete with text, columns, tables and graphics. For just a five page document, PDF-to-Office conversion could save an individual one hour or more of effort by eliminating the need to manually recreate document content.

“In the current budget and economic environment, most organizations are looking for every possible way to save money and increase the productivity of their current staff,” said Robert Weideman, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Document Imaging Division. “Our ‘Better PDF for Government’ solution is designed to highlight that there is a choice in PDF — and that Nuance PDF delivers the best value for taxpayer money and highest levels of document productivity for government staff at a fraction of the cost of other PDF solutions.”

Better PDF for Government

The new “Better PDF for Government” program from Nuance is designed to deliver the price, features and performance needed to enable government organizations to provide all of their staff with the productivity benefits of PDF Converter Professional. The program includes the following components:

Government Volume Licensing — Government agencies are able to purchase the Nuance PDF solution at significant discounts over commercial organizations, with pricing that is up to 50% less than Adobe Acrobat. For example, a 500 seat license of Nuance PDF would save an organization over $30,000. Alternatively, Nuance could provide more than 1,200 seats of PDF Converter Professional for the price that Adobe charges for 500 seats of Adobe Acrobat. Visit www.BetterPDF.com/Gov for more information and a Savings Calculator to see how much an organization can save.
Government Site License Program — Nuance also offers a compelling Site License Program (SLP-G), which delivers even greater savings over the volume license program, and offers the additional benefits of a simple, one-page agreement without any per-seat counting or compliance and audit provisions. This lowers the cost of acquisition as well as cost of ownership, as organizations do not waste valuable time and effort on compliance concerns.
A Proven Product — Over 3 million copies of Nuance PDF products have been deployed and are used within a wide range of government agencies, including the Bureau of Census, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the FBI, GSA, Lockheed Martin Svc Inc, the National Science Foundation, the State Department, the Treasury Department, US Army Medcom, USDA, US Environmental Protection Agency, VA Medical Centers TN and Augusta, Walter Reed Medical Center and more.
Easy Reference Site — Nuance has developed www.BetterPDF.com/Gov as a quick reference site where government agencies can go to understand the value of PDF Converter Professional, request a product evaluation, and compare pricing using an interactive Savings Calculator available on the site.

PDF Converter Professional Enterprise Edition raises the bar for Office-centric PDF, with significant features helpful to government workers:

Secure PDF Creation — Easily create PDF files from any PC application that can print, add permissions, passwords and encryption to support secure sharing on email and the Web.
View, Edit, Annotate and Form Fill — Nuance supports the PDF standard, providing all of the rich PDF collaboration features that people need, in a product that is intuitive and easy to use. Advanced features include FormTyper, for instantly making any PDF form fill-able, digital signature support, stamps, watermarks and more.
PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint — Instantly turn existing PDF files, including scanned documents, into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, as well as Corel and RTF documents. PDF conversion can save one hour of effort for a five page document alone — delivering significant productivity benefits not available in alternative solutions.
Redaction — Redact text and images from PDF Files, permanently removing “sensitive” information such as social security numbers or addresses.
Bates Stamping — Apply custom Bates numbering schemes to your PDF files individually or via batch process.
Document Management Support — Directly open and save PDF with content management systems like Interwoven, Hummingbird, Open Text and CaseMap.
Network Deployment Configuration Tools — Configure and customize the PDF functionality to be distributed to your users.

Availability and Pricing

PDF Converter Professional Enterprise Edition is available now through Nuance and its global network of resale partners. For additional information on all products, features, pricing and volume licensing programs, please visit www.BetterPDF.com/Gov or call
1 800 443-7077.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance 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 and professional services. For more information, please visit: www.nuance.com.

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