ScanSoft is the leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions that make businesses more productive. The company's portfolio of solutions and technologies automate a range of manual processes to help consumers, professionals and enterprises save time, increase productivity and improve customer service.

Historically, ScanSoft has been the leader in paper-to-digital solutions and document imaging applications and technologies. The company's optical character recognition, digital paper management and eForms applications are used by leading corporations, government organizations and technology vendors to instantly convert paper documents into digital information.

With acquisition of Lernout & Hauspie and Philips Speech Processing's divisions VoiceControl and Telephony Solutions, ScanSoft adds speech and language solutions to its portfolio of productivity-enhancing applications and technologies. The robust group of assets includes the industry's foremost text-to-speech technology, speech recognition technology, the popular Dragon speech recognition software and technology aimed at the rapidly growing telecommunications, automotive and mobile device markets. ScanSoft's speech-based technology and intellectual property is widely considered the finest in the industry and represents a strategic growth opportunity for the company.

With a registered user base already exceeding 10 million individuals and corporate customers including AOL/Time Warner, IBM, Microsoft and Sony, ScanSoft's cutting-edge imaging and speech technologies are among the most pervasive in the world. The company also has strategic relationships with the world's leading manufacturers of multi-function devices, including Canon, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark and Xerox, and maintains partnerships with many of the industry's biggest users of speech and voice technology.

ScanSoft is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: SSFT), employs nearly 600 people and maintains offices around the world.

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