Nuance Makes it Easier Than Ever to Achieve at Least One New Year’s Resolution for 2009 – Get Organised!

Taking the First Step Towards Organisation – Getting Rid of Paper Clutter – is Easier and More Useful Than You May Think

LONDON, UK., – December 10, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced several tips aimed at helping people achieve at least one New Year’s resolution for 2009: getting organised, both at home and in the office. “Getting more organised” is consistently one of the top ten New Year’s resolutions, according to a recent survey of over 300,000 people conducted by 10millionresolutions.com.

The time and cost of organising paper clutter can be surprisingly quick and affordable, especially when compared to the cost associated with folders, boxes, containers and storage space needed to store paper.  Nuance’s award-winning scanning solutions – including PaperPort, OmniPage and PDF Converter Professional – have been used by millions to turn piles of paper into organised documents on their PC, where they can be searched, stored and easily shared using email and the Web.

There are simple steps that people can take to get organised in 2009:

Put your Scanner to Work – With nearly every All-in-One printer outfitted with a scanner, millions of people have the ability to turn paper into organised digital documents.  New advances in software make scanning easier and more powerful than ever.

Save a Day a Month – By simply adding PaperPort to their PC, people can scan as easily as they can make a copy, creating electronic paper copies that can be easily organised.  Better still, PaperPort includes optical character recognition (OCR) technology that makes scanned documents as searchable as email and Microsoft Office documents.  With a simple keyword or phrase users can find any scanned document in seconds.

Save Another Day a Month – It can take hours to manually re-create existing paper documents using a word processor, but just seconds to scan paper into a fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. By using Nuance OmniPage to automatically turn existing paper and PDF into documents they can edit, a person could save the equivalent of 24 hours with just ten five page documents.

Go Green with Electronic Paper – Email has helped many of us avoid the unnecessary use of paper, but we still print when we can share ‘electronic paper.’  Nearly everyone is familiar with the PDF format, with millions of the same-as-paper documents on the Web and shared as email attachments.  Nuance PDF Converter Professional lets people create their own PDF copies of documents, letting them share documents that are universally viewed, almost always are smaller in file size, and more secure than sending the source document.  People can also print Web pages to PDF on their PC – such as travel confirmations, online purchase receipts and more – making it easy to replace printing to paper with printing to electronic paper.

Lose the Clutter, Gain the Time
Nuance’s full line of Document Imaging applications make it easier than ever to get organised now and erase piles of paper in a snap. 

PaperPort 11 – PaperPort is the most productive and cost effective way to scan and organise documents including paper, PDF files and photographs.  It turns piles of paper – bank statements, receipts, pay stubs and more – into organised files that you can easily find, print and share.  Millions of people rely on PaperPort to simplify scanning and to make scanned documents searchable on their PC.

OmniPage 16 – OmniPage is the easiest way to edit, share and store paper, PDF and electronic documents. The software turns paper and digital documents that would take hours to re-type and lay out into perfectly formatted text documents in seconds. With its innovative 3D Capture feature, OmniPage can turn pictures into editable documents. It can even turn text into human-sounding audio books for the iPod or MP3-player.

PDF Converter Professional 5 – PDF Converter Professional 5 is the quickest and easiest method to create, convert and edit PDF files.  It creates PDF files from practically any PC application, and converts PDFs into Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Make changes directly within a PDF file, compare two versions of a PDF document, or insert a table of contents into a PDF, based on the bookmark hierarchy.  Secure your documents by applying digital signatures and security settings.