Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that the United States Attorneys Office has selected Nuance's family of imaging and dictation solutions for deployment throughout the organization. As part of a productivity initiative, the US Attorneys Office will roll out Nuance's full line of productivity applications – including OmniPage® Professional, PaperPort® Professional, PDF Converter Professional and Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® Professional – to 15,000 employees as part of its standard PC configuration.

Like many organizations, the US Attorneys Office has been challenged to reduce costs while increasing productivity, especially in the way that it creates, stores and shares documents. Further, with ever tightening budgets, the organization has been frequently faced with the prospect of choosing which limited subset of its workers would get tools to help them with their work, and which would not. Nuance has provided the US Attorneys Office with a solution to both problems – applications that have the features and quality which deliver measurable levels of productivity gains, and a licensing program that enables affordable enterprise deployments. The US Attorneys Office joins other leading organizations, including the Logitech & Defense Contract Audit Agency, U.S. Social Security Administration and Texas Children’s Hospital, who have also benefited from Nuance’s products and volume license programs.

"The decision by the US Attorneys Office to standardize on Nuance Productivity Applications is further evidence that PDF, scanning and speech recognition solutions have become mainstream professional office applications," said Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president for Nuance Productivity Applications. "It also demonstrates the benefits of the Nuance® Site Licensing Program, which greatly simplifies the purchasing process and removes the headaches associated with compliance and monitoring."

The combination of Nuance OmniPage Professional, PaperPort Professional and PDF Converter Professional will enable the US Attorneys Office to quickly and accurately scan and convert paper into documents that can be stored, searched and shared electronically, and to replace paper with secure electronic PDF workflows. The deal also includes the Redax & Stamp add-on to PDF Converter Professional, which is created by Nuance development and reseller partner Appligent.

Also included in the software agreement is Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the world’s most accurate and best selling speech recognition application, which allows staff to create reports, emails, spreadsheets, and other documents up to three times faster than manual typing – having their speech turned into text at up to 160 words per minute, with accuracy rates up to 99 percent. Combined, Nuance Productivity Applications will lead to reduced costs and increased productivity for the US Attorneys Office by automating many of the manual processes that have traditionally bound the organization.

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