AIIM Exposition + Conference, PHILADELPHIA, PA — March 31, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that it has experienced strong interest in its OmniPage® Capture SDK developer toolkit to add scanning, optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF capabilities to both commercial and in-house applications. Today, nearly 100% of commercial imaging vendors turn to Nuance’s OmniPage and other imaging solutions to create new paperless office applications; and many notable corporate customers tap OmniPage to create their own custom automated document scanning and archive solutions to win the battle over paper.

The current economy and today’s green initiatives have sparked a renewed interest in the paperless office and cost reduction. Now more than ever, organizations worldwide are implementing paper-to-digital conversion solutions with Nuance’s trusted OmniPage recognition engine at the core, not only streamlining business processes but boosting productivity and dramatically reducing costs. With the highest levels of OCR accuracy, layout retention and performance available, the OmniPage Capture SDK is used by vendors such as Accusoft; Adlib eDoc Solutions; Autodesk Raster Design; Autonomy Cardiff; Bowe Bell & Howell; Canon; Captaris; CardScan; Electronic for Imaging; EMC Captiva; Fuji Xerox CentreWare Flow Services; IBM FileNET Capture; Kofax Ascent Capture; Microsoft Office; Microsoft SharePoint; Neat; and Xerox DocuShare to build paperless capabilities into their applications. And the world’s largest Web book scanning and search projects – including Google Desktop Search – rely on the OmniPage Capture SDK for paper-to-digital conversion and intelligent search.

Nuance’s OmniPage Capture SDK gives commercial and in-house developers everything they need to easily support paperless office efforts, either by adding powerful imaging features to their existing applications, or developing complete document capture or forms processing applications for desktop or server environments. The OmniPage Capture SDK delivers unmatched accuracy, robust imaging, recognition and PDF capabilities, support for the .NET environment, Workflow controls, and Logical Form Recognition technologies that help streamline development and provide added value to today’s applications. It goes a step further with innovations such as scan to redaction — the removal of text from an image and PDF file — wherein users can set sensitive words or phrases as an attribute prior to scanning, and any application developed with the OmniPage Capture SDK can redact on the fly. The OmniPage Capture SDK also includes Nuance’s award-winning text-to-speech technology, which enables applications to turn paper and digital documents into human-sounding audio files, providing document support for those with disabilities, and allowing anyone to save documents to files that can be played on personal computers and mobile devices, including Apple iPod.

Corporate and integrator organizations worldwide have also discovered that they can use the OmniPage Capture SDK 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, Lexis Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and WalMart. And OmniPage OCR from Nuance is used by millions everyday within the world’s most accurate and popular desktop scanning, OCR and document conversion applications — PaperPort®, OmniPage® and PDF Converter Professional.

“Document capture and conversion have become mainstream functions within organizations of all sizes, expanding beyond their traditional back-office roles, particularly as the economy has worsened over the past year and companies are struggling to become more lean and to go paperless,” said Chris Strammiello, vice president of marketing and product strategy, Nuance Imaging Division. “Nuance plays a critical role in delivering the technology needed to support today’s new, powerful applications that help companies to streamline their business processes and boost productivity. Not only does the OmniPage Capture SDK really demonstrate Nuance’s long history and experience with recognition technologies, but our rich customer and partner base is proof positive that Nuance is delivering the accuracy, speed and output format support required to bring compelling desktop and server solutions with the highest possible value to an even broader audience.”

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Pricing and Availability

The Nuance OmniPage Capture SDK from Nuance is available for order now with pricing starting at $4,495 for a developer license. For more information on the product and to request runtime pricing please visit the Nuance web site or call Nuance at 1 800 443-7077.

About the OmniPage Capture SDK

Used by many leading commercial vendors as well as many government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, the OmniPage Capture SDK allows your application to turn any paper, image, PDF or XPS document into digital documents that are searchable, editable, and re-usable. The OmniPage CSDK can unlock information trapped in documents with extraordinary accuracy and speed, transforming them into the most popular formats including TXT, RTF, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPTX, HTML, XML, and more. And of course, OmniPage OCR is used by millions everyday within the world’s most accurate and popular desktop scanning, OCR and document conversion applications — Nuance’s PaperPort®, OmniPage® and PDF Converter Professional software. For more information, please visit http://www.nuance.com/omnipage/capturesdk/.

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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