BURLINGTON, Mass., August 2, 2010 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the new release of its award-winning desktop PDF software, Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7. The new release of Nuance’s flagship PDF product delivers the rich features users want in desktop PDF, with some features that surpass all others in delivering time-saving value in the office – all at about one third the cost of Adobe® Acrobat®.
PDF Converter Enterprise 7 promises to extend Nuance’s leadership as the number one alternative to Adobe Acrobat, delivering a robust set of innovations and enhancements that result in a smarter PDF solution for the office. Important innovations in the release include visual document assembly, which makes it easier than ever to combine paper, PDF and Microsoft Office documents into a single PDF, and a Web PDF toolbar that puts the full power of the product directly into leading Web browsers. Office workers wanting paperless features gain robust PDF scanning capabilities, including one-click scanning with scan-and-markup capabilities. Enterprise-wide collaboration and workflow is enabled through robust connectivity to Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise content management systems.
“We selected Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise over alternatives because it was significantly less expensive,” said Mark Karten, Realtor, The Karten Group at Realty Executives of Nevada. “But even better than the lower cost of licensing, Nuance’s focus on PDF productivity features saved us hours of effort when working with paper, PDF and Microsoft Office documents. If you need PDF in the office, we recommend Nuance.”
In 2003 Nuance and Microsoft Corp. collaborated on PDF Converter, the first-ever product to turn PDF into editable and fully formatted Microsoft Office documents. The new release benefits from this continued collaboration, delivering unique first-ever features such as support for Microsoft Silverlight rich media within PDF files, Windows 7 jump-lists for frequent PDF tasks, direct access to Microsoft SharePoint, and the Web PDF toolbar for Internet Explorer.
“Nuance’s focus on all open document formats, including PDF and Open XML, results in a PDF desktop application that delivers significant office productivity benefits to both individuals and organizations,” said Kim Akers, general manager for global partners at Microsoft. “We are especially excited to see PDF solutions that leverage the power of Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Silverlight in order to streamline the way organizations work with paper and digital documents.”
The Smarter PDF for Office
PDF Converter Enterprise 7 delivers innovations and enhancements focused on saving time and effort when creating, sharing and storing documents in the office. Key new capabilities include:
Smarter PDF Document Assembly – The new visual document assembly feature makes it “drag and drop” easy to combine existing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with PDF documents – adding the entire document or specific pages.
Smarter PDF for the Web – The new Web PDF toolbar lets users customize the way they interact with PDF files directly within Microsoft Internet Explorer, FireFox and Google Chrome Web browsers. Users can convert a PDF to Word or Excel, annotate the document and then re-save a PDF. They can even turn a static PDF form on the Web into a fill-able PDF electronic form using the FormTyper feature – without leaving their browser.
Smarter PDF-to-Office Conversion – Already the accuracy leader, the new release improves accuracy by a further 20 percent, converting PDF into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and Corel WordPerfect documents.PDF-to-Excel conversion has been enhanced to enable multiple PDF files to be combined into a single Excel spreadsheet.
Smarter PDF Scanning – Nuance has added its famous one-click scanning to the product, insulating users from often arcane scanner settings. Better still are the scan-and-highlight and scan-and-redact features, which combine scanning with the automatic search and highlight/redact feature.
Smarter PDF Search – Searching within one or more PDF files just became more useful and powerful. The release includes Looks-Like Search, which finds items that have distinct patterns, such as text that looks like a phone number or email address. Also new is search-and-markup, which uses keywords to automatically highlight matches throughout the PDF document.
Smarter PDF for Paperless Workflows – Users can now directly open, edit and save PDF documents with leading content management systems, including Microsoft SharePoint; Autonomy iManage WorkSite; OpenText DocsOpen, Connectivity Solutions (eDocs/Hummingbird) and LiveLink. The product also includes support for the eCopy Inbox, providing direct connectivity to Nuance eCopy ShareScan, the best selling network scanning and document workflow solution for multifunction printers (MFP).
Pricing and Availability
The complete family of Nuance PDF solutions is available through Nuance’s global network of reseller, retail and e-commerce partners. Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7 is $149 with volume discounts available through the Nuance Open License Program. PDF Converter Professional 7, targeting individuals and small workgroups, is $99. Upgrade pricing and support products are also available. For additional information on features, pricing and volume licensing programs, please visit www.nuance.com/pdf or call +1-800-443-7077.
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. 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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